Nehemiah 7:4-14

4 Now the city was large * and spacious, but the people in it were few and the houses were not built.

5 ¹Then my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles, the officials and the people to be enrolled by genealogies. Then I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up first in which I found the following record:

6 ²These are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and who returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his city,

7 who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number of men of the people of Israel:

8 the sons of Parosh, 2,172 * * *;

9 the sons of Shephatiah, 372 * * *;

10 the sons of Arah, 652 * * *;

11 the sons of Pahath-moab of the sons of Jeshua and Joab, 2,818 * * * *;

12 the sons of Elam, 1,254 * * *;

13 the sons of Zattu, 845 * * *;

14 the sons of Zaccai, 760 * *;

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Nehemiah 7:4-14 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NEHEMIAH 7

Nehemiah having built the wall, and set up the doors, appointed two persons to take the charge of the city, and set watches for the safety of it, and to take special care about opening and shutting the gates of it, Ne 7:1-3, and concerned he was for the peopling of it, and having found a register of the first comers to it, gives their names, Ne 7:4-69 and some account of the freewill offerings made for the work they came about, Ne 7:70-73.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 2

1. Proverbs 2:6; Proverbs 3:6
2. Ezra 2:1-70

Footnotes 6

[a]. Lit "and I found written in it"
[b]. Lit "sons"
[c]. In Ezra 2:2, "Seraiah"
[d]. In Ezra 2:2, "Reelaiah"
[e]. In Ezra 2:2, "Mispar"
[f]. In Ezra 2:2, "Rehum"

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Nehemiah 7:4-14 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NEHEMIAH 7

Cross References 2

Footnotes 6