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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Nehemiah 10:34 - 10:34
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we cast the lots ... for the wood offering - The carrying of the wood had formerly been the work of the Nethinims. But few of them having returned, the duty was assigned as stated in the text. The practice afterwards rose into great importance, and Josephus speaks [The Wars of the Jews, 2.17, sect. 6] of the Xylophoria, or certain stated and solemn times at which the people brought up wood to the temple.