Nehemiah 7:66-73

Total of People and Gifts

66 The whole assembly together was 42,360 * * * * *,

67 besides * their male and their female servants *, of whom there were 7,337 * * * * *; and they had 245 * * male and female singers.

68 ¹Their horses were 736 * *; their mules, 245 * *;

69 their camels, 435 * * *; their donkeys, 6,720 * * * *.

70 Some from among the heads of fathers' households gave to the work. The ²governor gave to the treasury 1,000 gold drachmas, 50 basins, 530 * * priests' garments.

71 Some of the heads of fathers' households gave into the treasury of the work 20,000 * gold drachmas and 2,200 * silver minas.

72 That which the rest of the people gave was 20,000 * gold drachmas and 2,000 silver minas and 67 * priests' garments.

73 Now ³the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the temple servants and all Israel, lived in their cities. ⁴And when the seventh month came, the sons of Israel were in their cities.

Nehemiah 7:66-73 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. Ezra 2:66
• 2. Nehemiah 7:65; Nehemiah 8:9
• 3. 1 Chronicles 9:2
• 4. Ezra 3:1

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "these"
• [b]. So with some ancient mss and Gr
• [c]. Heb "Tirshatha," a Persian title