Nehemiah 7:71-72

71 Some of the heads of fathers' households gave into the treasury of the work 20,000 * gold drachmas and 2,200 * silver minas.

72 That which the rest of the people gave was 20,000 * gold drachmas and 2,000 silver minas and 67 * priests' garments.

Nehemiah 7:71-72 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.