Nehemiah 7:6-16

6 These are the children of the province, who went up out of the captivity of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and who returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, everyone to his city;
7 who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:
8 The children of Parosh, two thousand one hundred seventy-two.
9 The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two.
10 The children of Arah, six hundred fifty-two.
11 The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred [and] eighteen.
12 The children of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
13 The children of Zattu, eight hundred forty-five.
14 The children of Zaccai, seven hundred sixty.
15 The children of Binnui, six hundred forty-eight.
16 The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty-eight.

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.

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