It is made up solely of personal names, with no promise expressed in it. 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 stands with the more than fifteen hundred verses in the Bible made up simply of names of persons, genealogies, places, nations, cities, and kings, and such name-list verses cannot be counted among God's great and precious promises to His people.
It stands in Nehemiah 8-10, covering the period about 446-408, the last reform on Nehemiah's return to Jerusalem. The surrounding account presents who Nehemiah is and the work that he did, working always with the highest good of Jerusalem in mind. He was impatient toward the people because of their slackness in doing the work of God, and indignant toward those sinning against God in uniting with the heathen peoples, even bringing them into the very temple itself. It belongs to Babylonian life in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah, part of the Bible narrative that is confirmed and informed by discoveries in the ancient lands adjoining Israel that had dealings with Israel.
Nehemiah 10 records the covenant entered into by the remnant who returned to Jerusalem after the captivity, and this verse is part of that record, naming men associated with the covenant. The covenant was a solemn covenant to keep the law of Moses that Ezra had brought back to Jerusalem. This covenant marked the establishment of the Pentateuch as the Jews' canonical and authoritative book.
It is made up solely of personal names, with no promise expressed in it. 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 stands with the more than fifteen hundred verses in the Bible made up simply of names of persons, genealogies, places, nations, cities, and kings, and such name-list verses cannot be counted among God's great and precious promises to His people.
It stands in Nehemiah 8-10, covering the period about 446-408, the last reform on Nehemiah's return to Jerusalem. The surrounding account presents who Nehemiah is and the work that he did, working always with the highest good of Jerusalem in mind. He was impatient toward the people because of their slackness in doing the work of God, and indignant toward those sinning against God in uniting with the heathen peoples, even bringing them into the very temple itself. It belongs to Babylonian life in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah, part of the Bible narrative that is confirmed and informed by discoveries in the ancient lands adjoining Israel that had dealings with Israel.
Nehemiah 10 records the covenant entered into by the remnant who returned to Jerusalem after the captivity, and this verse is part of that record, naming men associated with the covenant. The covenant was a solemn covenant to keep the law of Moses that Ezra had brought back to Jerusalem. This covenant marked the establishment of the Pentateuch as the Jews' canonical and authoritative book.