Nehemiah 12:45 - Exposition

This verse is wrongly translated in the A. V. It should be rendered, as in the Vulgate and the Septuagint—"And they ( i.e. the priests and Levites) maintained the ward of their God, and the ward of the purification, and the singers, and the porters ( i.e. the institutions of singers and porters), according to the ordinance of David and of Solomon his son." Maintaining the ward of their God is serving regularly in the temple at the times appointed; maintaining the ward of the purification is observing the rules for the purifying of the holy things which had been laid down by David ( 1 Chronicles 23:28 ).