| Neh 10:3-9 | Neh 12:1-7 | Neh 12:12-21 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Priests who sealed the Covenant | Priests who were Heads of their Houses | Priestly Houses | and their respective Heads |
| 1. Seraiah | 1. Seraiah* | SeraiahMeraiah | |
| 2. Azariah | 2. Jeremiah* | Jeremiah | Hananiah |
| 3. Jeremiah | 3. Ezra* | Ezra | Meshullam |
| 4. Pashur | 4. Amariah* | Amariah | Jehohanan |
| 5. Amariah | 5. Malluch* | Meluchi | Jonathan |
| 6. Malchijah | 6. Hattush* | ||
| 7. Hattush | 7. Shecaniah* | Shebaniah | Joseph |
| 8. Shebaniah | 8. Rehum* | Harim | Adna |
| 9. Malluch | 9. Meremoth* | Meraioth | Helkai |
| 10. Harim | 10. Iddo | Idiah | Zecariah |
| 11. Meremoth | 11. Ginnethon* | Ginnethon | Meshullam |
| 12. Obadiah | 12. Abijah* | Abijah | Zichri |
| 13. Daniel | 13. Miamin* | Miniamin | |
| 14. Ginnethon | 14. Maadiah* | Moadiah | Piltai |
| 15. Baruch | 15. Bilgah* | Bilgah | Shammua |
| 16. Meshullam | 16. Shemaiah* | Shemaiah | Jehonathan |
| 17. Abijah | 17. Joiarib | Joiarib | Mathnai |
| 18. Mijamin | 18. Jedaiah | Jedaiah | Uzzi |
| 19. Maaziah | 19. Sallu | Sallai | Kallai |
| 20. Bilgai | 20. Amok | Amok | Eber |
| 21. Shemaiah | 21. Hilkiah | Hilkiah | Hashabiah |
| 22. Jedaiah | 22. Jedaiah | Nethaneel |
When, in the first place, we compare the two series in Neh 12, we find the name of the head of the house of Minjamin, and the names both of the house and the head, Hattush, between Meluchi and Shebaniah, omitted. In other respects the two lists agree both in the order and number of the names, with the exception of unimportant variations in the names, as מלוּכי (Chethiv, Neh 12:14) for מלּוּך (Neh 12:2); שׁכניה (Neh 12:3) for שׁבניה (Neh 12:14, Neh 10:6); רחם (Neh 12:3), a transposition of חרם (Neh 12:15, Neh 10:6); מריות (Neh 12:15) instead of מרמות (Neh 12:3, Neh 10:6); עדיא (Chethiv, Neh 12:16) instead of עדּוא (Neh 12:4); מיּמין (Neh 12:5) for מנימין (Neh 12:17); מועדיה (Neh 12:17) for מעדיה (Neh 12:4), or, according to a different pronunciation, מעזיה (Neh 10:9); סלּי (Neh 12:20) for סלּוּ (Neh 12:7). - If we next compare the two lists in Neh 12 with that in Neh 10, we find that of the twenty-two names given (Neh 12), ), the fifteen marked thus * occur also in Neh 10; <; עזריה, Neh 10:4, being evidently a
