Nehemiah 7:4-14

4 civitas autem erat lata nimis et grandis et populus parvus in medio eius et non erant domus aedificatae

5 dedit autem Deus in corde meo et congregavi optimates et magistratus et vulgum ut recenserem eos et inveni librum census eorum qui ascenderant primum et inventum est scriptum in eo

6 isti filii provinciae qui ascenderunt de captivitate migrantium quos transtulerat Nabuchodonosor rex Babylonis et reversi sunt in Hierusalem et in Iudaeam unusquisque in civitatem suam

7 qui venerunt cum Zorobabel Hiesuae Neemias Azarias Raamias Naamni Mardocheus Belsar Mespharath Beggoai Naum Baana numerus virorum populi Israhel

8 filii Pharos duo milia centum septuaginta duo

9 filii Saphatiae trecenti septuaginta duo

10 filii Area sescenti quinquaginta duo

11 filii Phaethmoab filiorum Hiesuae et Ioab duo milia octingenti decem et octo

12 filii Helam mille octingenti quinquaginta quattuor

13 filii Zethua octingenti quadraginta quinque

14 filii Zacchai septingenti sexaginta

Nehemiah 7:4-14 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.