Nehemiah 7:1-2

Census of First Returned Exiles

1 Now when ¹the wall was rebuilt and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers and the singers and the Levites were appointed,

2 then I put ²Hanani my brother, and ³Hananiah the commander of ⁴the fortress, in charge of Jerusalem, for he was ⁵a faithful man and feared God more than many.

Nehemiah 7:1-2 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.

Cross References

• 1. Nehemiah 6:1, 15
• 2. Nehemiah 1:2
• 3. Nehemiah 10:23
• 4. Nehemiah 2:8
• 5. Nehemiah 13:13