The verse consists simply of personal names, part of the lists in Ezra and Nehemiah of the leading men who came up from the captivity and of those who had married foreign wives. Within those lists it belongs to the account of the remnant's covenant after returning to Jerusalem, recording their condition and the covenant they entered into. Its setting is the life connected with Babylon in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah. That setting is confirmed and illustrated by discoveries in ancient lands adjoining Israel that had dealings with that people. The verse is not an expressed promise and can hardly be counted as a precious promise to God's people, so verses like it must be subtracted from the total verses of the Bible when counting distinct promises, leaving far fewer than thirty-six thousand.
The verse consists simply of personal names, part of the lists in Ezra and Nehemiah of the leading men who came up from the captivity and of those who had married foreign wives. Within those lists it belongs to the account of the remnant's covenant after returning to Jerusalem, recording their condition and the covenant they entered into. Its setting is the life connected with Babylon in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah. That setting is confirmed and illustrated by discoveries in ancient lands adjoining Israel that had dealings with that people. The verse is not an expressed promise and can hardly be counted as a precious promise to God's people, so verses like it must be subtracted from the total verses of the Bible when counting distinct promises, leaving far fewer than thirty-six thousand.