The verse consists simply of personal names, part of the lists in Ezra and Nehemiah of leading ones who went up from the captivity and of those who had married strange wives. It belongs to the history of the days of Ezra and Nehemiah that illustrates Babylonian life in contact with Israel. It is included in the account of the covenant entered into by the remnant who returned to Jerusalem after the seventy years of captivity.
The covenant recorded there was to keep the law of Moses. That covenant marks the establishment of the Pentateuch as the Jews' canonical and authoritative book. It is not an expressed promise, much less an exceeding great and precious promise to God's people, and with more than fifteen hundred other verses of names it shows that not every verse of the thirty-one thousand five hundred and thirteen verses of the Bible can be counted as a promise.
The verse consists simply of personal names, part of the lists in Ezra and Nehemiah of leading ones who went up from the captivity and of those who had married strange wives. It belongs to the history of the days of Ezra and Nehemiah that illustrates Babylonian life in contact with Israel. It is included in the account of the covenant entered into by the remnant who returned to Jerusalem after the seventy years of captivity.
The covenant recorded there was to keep the law of Moses. That covenant marks the establishment of the Pentateuch as the Jews' canonical and authoritative book. It is not an expressed promise, much less an exceeding great and precious promise to God's people, and with more than fifteen hundred other verses of names it shows that not every verse of the thirty-one thousand five hundred and thirteen verses of the Bible can be counted as a promise.