Nehemiah 7:72-73

72 The total given by the rest of the people was 20,000 darics of gold, 2,000 minas^[a] of silver and 67 garments for priests.

73 The priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the musicians and the temple servants, along with certain of the people and the rest of the Israelites, settled in their own towns. When the seventh month came and the Israelites had settled in their towns,

Nehemiah 7:72-73 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. S Exodus 25:2
• 2. Nehemiah 1:10; Psalms 34:22; Psalms 103:21; Psalms 113:1; Psalms 135:1
• 3. S Ezra 3:1; Nehemiah 11:1
• 4. Ezra 3:1

Footnotes

• [a]. That is, about 1 1/4 tons or about 1.1 metric tons