Nehemiah 7:7-17

7 These people returned with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, and Baanah. These are the people from Israel:

8 the descendants of Parosh -- 2,172;

9 the descendants of Shephatiah -- 372;

10 the descendants of Arah -- 652;

11 the descendants of Pahath-Moab (through the family of Jeshua and Joab) -- 2,818;

12 the descendants of Elam -- 1,254;

13 the descendants of Zattu -- 845;

14 the descendants of Zaccai -- 760;

15 the descendants of Binnui -- 648;

16 the descendants of Bebai -- 628;

17 the descendants of Azgad -- 2,322;

Nehemiah 7:7-17 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.