Nehemiah 7:51-61

51 the children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Pase'ach.

52 The children of Besai, the children of Me`unim, the children of Nefishesim,

53 the children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakufa, the children of Harchur,

54 the children of Batzlit, the children of Mechida, the children of Harsha,

55 the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temach,

56 the children of Netzi'ach, the children of Hatifa.

57 The children of Shlomo's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Soferet, the children of Perida,

58 the children of Ya`alah, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel,

59 the children of Shefatyah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pokheret-Hatzevayim, the children of Amon.

60 All the temple servants, and the children of Shlomo's servants, were three hundred ninety-two.

61 These were those who went up from Tel-Melakh, Tel-Harsha, Keruv, Addon, and Immer; but they could not show their fathers' houses, nor their seed, whether they were of Yisra'el:

Nehemiah 7:51-61 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.