The verse is made up only of personal names, belonging to the lists in Ezra and Nehemiah of the leading ones who went up from the captivity and of those who had married strange wives. It names Hodijah, Bani, and Beninu among the people who entered into a solemn covenant to keep the law of Moses after the remnant returned to Jerusalem. That covenant belongs to Nehemiah’s account of the remnant’s return, identifying those associated with it. The remnant accepted the privilege of returning and received what God promised when they sought Him, but Israel as a whole did not put away its iniquities and therefore did not receive the full promises intended for that dispensation.
It is not an expressed precious promise to God’s people, but one of more than fifteen hundred verses consisting simply of names of persons. Such name-verses, together with threatenings and denunciations, must be taken out of the total of 31,513 verses in the Bible — 23,556 in the Old Testament and 7,957 in the New Testament. So every verse cannot be a distinct promise, and the claim of thirty-six thousand distinct promises in the Bible is doubtful.
The verse is made up only of personal names, belonging to the lists in Ezra and Nehemiah of the leading ones who went up from the captivity and of those who had married strange wives. It names Hodijah, Bani, and Beninu among the people who entered into a solemn covenant to keep the law of Moses after the remnant returned to Jerusalem. That covenant belongs to Nehemiah’s account of the remnant’s return, identifying those associated with it. The remnant accepted the privilege of returning and received what God promised when they sought Him, but Israel as a whole did not put away its iniquities and therefore did not receive the full promises intended for that dispensation.
It is not an expressed precious promise to God’s people, but one of more than fifteen hundred verses consisting simply of names of persons. Such name-verses, together with threatenings and denunciations, must be taken out of the total of 31,513 verses in the Bible — 23,556 in the Old Testament and 7,957 in the New Testament. So every verse cannot be a distinct promise, and the claim of thirty-six thousand distinct promises in the Bible is doubtful.