Nehemiah 10:19 gives only names of persons and contains no expressed promise. It belongs with 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 is part of the record in Nehemiah chapters 8 through 10 of the people's solemn covenant to keep the law of Moses after Ezra brought it back into use.
It reflects life in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah, set among the ancient lands adjoining Israel that had dealings with Israel, where discoveries confirm the Bible narrative and give information about Babylonian life at that time. The covenant recorded in Nehemiah chapters 8 through 10 established the Pentateuch as the canonical and authoritative book of the Jews. Verses of this kind, consisting merely of names, number more than fifteen hundred verses in the Bible and are not precious promises to God's people, and together with threatenings of wrath and denunciations of evil they leave about thirty thousand out of thirty-one thousand five hundred and thirteen verses in the whole Bible that could be counted as promises, showing there cannot be thirty-six thousand distinct promises.
Nehemiah 10:19 gives only names of persons and contains no expressed promise. It belongs with 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 is part of the record in Nehemiah chapters 8 through 10 of the people's solemn covenant to keep the law of Moses after Ezra brought it back into use.
It reflects life in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah, set among the ancient lands adjoining Israel that had dealings with Israel, where discoveries confirm the Bible narrative and give information about Babylonian life at that time. The covenant recorded in Nehemiah chapters 8 through 10 established the Pentateuch as the canonical and authoritative book of the Jews. Verses of this kind, consisting merely of names, number more than fifteen hundred verses in the Bible and are not precious promises to God's people, and together with threatenings of wrath and denunciations of evil they leave about thirty thousand out of thirty-one thousand five hundred and thirteen verses in the whole Bible that could be counted as promises, showing there cannot be thirty-six thousand distinct promises.