John Gill, on Neh 12:27

“And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, and to keep the dedication, and to rejoice with thanksgiving, and with singing, and with cymbals, and psalteries and harps.”

“And the sons of the singers gathered themselves together,.... Such of the Levites that were singers, and their sons that were trained up as such: both out of the plain country round about Jerusalem the plain of Jordan by Jericho, and the plain of Saron and Lydda: and from the villages of Netophathi: see Ch1 9:16, here they dwelt, when not in their courses, to minister in the temple; but on this public occasion were summoned together.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.