Nehemiah 7:6-16

6 "Here is a list of the people of the province who had been exiled, carried off to Bavel by N'vukhadnetzar king of Bavel, but who later returned from exile and went up to Yerushalayim and Y'hudah, each to his own city;

7 they went with Z'rubavel, Yeshua, Nechemyah, 'Azaryah, Ra'amyah, Nachmani, Mordekhai, Bilshan, Misperet, Bigvai, N'chum and Ba'anah. "The number of men from the people of Isra'el:

8 descendants of Par'osh 2,172

9 descendants of Sh'fatyah 372

10 descendants of Arach 652

11 descendants of Pachat-Mo'av, from the descendants of Yeshua and Yo'av 2,818

12 descendants of 'Eilam 1,254

13 descendants of Zatu 845

14 descendants of Zakkai 760

15 descendants of Binui 648

16 descendants of B'vai 628

Nehemiah 7:6-16 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.