Nehemiah 7:66-73

Totals of People and Gifts

66 The whole assembly together was 42,360,

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

68 Their horses were 736, their mules 245,^[a]

69 their camels 435, and their donkeys 6,720.

70 Now some of the heads of fathers' houses gave to the work. The ¹governor gave to the treasury 1,000 darics^[b] of gold, 50 basins, 30 priests' garments and 500 minas^[c] of silver.^[d]

71 And some of the heads of fathers' houses gave into the treasury of the work 20,000 darics of gold and 2,200 minas of silver.

72 ²And what the rest of the people gave was 20,000 darics of gold, 2,000 minas of silver, and 67 priests' garments.

73 So the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the temple servants, and all Israel, lived in their towns. ³And when the seventh month had come, the people of Israel were in their towns.

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. [See ver. 65 above]
• 2. [Ezra 2:69]
• 3. Ezra 3:1

Footnotes

• [a]. Ezra 2:66 and the margins of some Hebrew manuscripts; Hebrew lacks Their horses... 245
• [b]. A daric was a coin weighing about 1/4 ounce or 8.5 grams
• [c]. A mina was about 1 1/4 pounds or 0.6 kilogram
• [d]. Probable reading; Hebrew lacks minas of silver