Nehemiah 12:19 - Exposition

And of Joiarib . The conjunction "and' occurring here, exactly as it does in Nehemiah 12:6 , once only in the whole list, and before the same name, shows that the two documents ( Nehemiah 12:1-7 , Nehemiah 12:12-21 ) are from the same hand. That the hand is that of Nehemiah, or a contemporary, seems to follow from the fact that no reason can be assigned for the division, or for the low place in the lists of the names Joiarib and Jedaiah, except the failure of these families to set their seals to the covenant (see the comment on verse 6).