SEV Biblia, Chapter 11:23
Porque había mandamiento del rey acerca de ellos, y determinación acerca de los cantores para cada día.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Nehemiah 11:23
Verse 23. It was the king's commandment] By the king some understand David, and others Artaxerxes. It is most probable that it was the latter; who wished that a provision should be made for these, a part of whose office was to offer up prayers also, as well as praises. For we know that Darius made an ample provision for the priests, that they might offer sacrifices of sweet savour unto the God of heaven; and pray for the life of the king and of his sons, Ezra vi. 10. Some have thought that they had been Jewish singers employed in the service of the Persian king, to whom he had given a salary, and to whom he wished still to continue the same.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 23. For it was the king’s commandment concerning them , etc.] Either of King David as some, (see Nehemiah 12:24) or rather of the king of Persia: that a certain portion should be for the singers, due for every day ; he settled a daily salary for them, to be paid out of his treasury; having perhaps a peculiar respect for such sort of men, being a lover of music, by means of which they had a settled habitation in Jerusalem.
Matthew Henry Commentary
The distribution of the people. --In all ages, men have preferred their own ease and advantage to the public good. Even the professors of religion too commonly seek their own, and not the things of Christ. Few have had such attachment to holy things and holy places, as to renounce pleasure for their sake. Ye surely, our souls should delight to dwell where holy persons an opportunities of spiritual improvement most abound. If we have not thi love to the city of our God, and to every thing that assists ou communion with the Saviour, how shall we be willing to depart hence; to be absent from the body, that we may be present with the Lord? To the carnal-minded, the perfect holiness of the New Jerusalem would be stil harder to bear than the holiness of God's church on earth. Let us see first the favour of God, and his glory; let us study to be patient contented, and useful in our several stations, and wait, with cheerfu hope, for admission into the holy city of God __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
כי 3588 מצות 4687 המלך 4428 עליהם 5921 ואמנה 548 על 5921 המשׁררים 7891 דבר 1697 יום 3117 ביומו׃ 3117
