Nehemiah 10:12 Meaning and Explanation

The roll of Levites proceeds. Sherebiah was among the able teachers and worship leaders who had returned with Ezra and helped explain the law to the people so they could understand it.

Those who had labored to make God's word plain to the people now bound themselves publicly to obey it. The teacher who first lives what he teaches lends his instruction a credibility that no eloquence alone can supply. Here word and life were joined in a single pledge.