Study note

Nehemiah 12:10–11

  • Joiakim likely served during the early years of Ezra's service.

  • Eliashib and Joiada served during Nehemiah's time (Nehemiah 3:1; 13:4, 28).

  • Jonathan: An Aramaic papyrus document from a Jewish colony in Elephantine, Egypt (around 410 BC). Josephus (Antiquities 11.5.4, AD 93) also mentions Jonathan serving after Nehemiah's time.