The verse records that fifty-two children or descendants of Nebo were among the returning exiles. It belongs to the list in Ezra 1 and 2, paralleled in Nehemiah, of the people and leading ones who responded to the decree or proclamation of Cyrus and went up from the Babylonian captivity to Jerusalem and their own land with Zerubbabel in the first year of Cyrus to rebuild the temple. Those already returned formed part of the total number of 42,360 persons, reckoned as nearly fifty thousand Jews, and the decree ended the captivity by making return freely available, even though many Jews remained in exile.
The historical account in Ezra 1-6 provides the setting for Haggai's messages and the rebuilding of the temple after the exile. The verse stands distinct from the Jews who still remained in Babylon and were then invited to return, an invitation later answered by a large number who went to Jerusalem with Ezra. It is simply a record of names of persons with their number, not an expressed precious promise to God's people.
Like the records of Adam's posterity, the descendants of Noah's sons, Esau, Jacob, Reuben, Aaron, the courses of the priests, the heads of Israel, Israel's journeyings, nations, cities, kings, David's mighty men, the twelve chapters of 1 Chronicles that are nearly all names, the lists of those who had married strange wives, the genealogy of Christ, and the lists of names in the epistles, it is one of more than fifteen hundred verses of names, besides verses of threatenings of God's wrath against sin and denunciations of evil, that cannot be counted as precious promises, leaving far fewer than the thirty-one thousand five hundred and thirteen total verses in the Bible available for promises, so thirty-six thousand distinct promises is impossible.
The verse records that fifty-two children or descendants of Nebo were among the returning exiles. It belongs to the list in Ezra 1 and 2, paralleled in Nehemiah, of the people and leading ones who responded to the decree or proclamation of Cyrus and went up from the Babylonian captivity to Jerusalem and their own land with Zerubbabel in the first year of Cyrus to rebuild the temple. Those already returned formed part of the total number of 42,360 persons, reckoned as nearly fifty thousand Jews, and the decree ended the captivity by making return freely available, even though many Jews remained in exile.
The historical account in Ezra 1-6 provides the setting for Haggai's messages and the rebuilding of the temple after the exile. The verse stands distinct from the Jews who still remained in Babylon and were then invited to return, an invitation later answered by a large number who went to Jerusalem with Ezra. It is simply a record of names of persons with their number, not an expressed precious promise to God's people.
Like the records of Adam's posterity, the descendants of Noah's sons, Esau, Jacob, Reuben, Aaron, the courses of the priests, the heads of Israel, Israel's journeyings, nations, cities, kings, David's mighty men, the twelve chapters of 1 Chronicles that are nearly all names, the lists of those who had married strange wives, the genealogy of Christ, and the lists of names in the epistles, it is one of more than fifteen hundred verses of names, besides verses of threatenings of God's wrath against sin and denunciations of evil, that cannot be counted as precious promises, leaving far fewer than the thirty-one thousand five hundred and thirteen total verses in the Bible available for promises, so thirty-six thousand distinct promises is impossible.