Nehemiah 7:10

The children of Arah, six hundred fifty and two.

The verse belongs to the record of Babylonian life in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah. It stands within a list of the names of those who returned from the captivity. As such it records names rather than giving a promise.

It belongs to the giving again of the number of the Jews in Nehemiah 7. This renewed numbering came after the wall was finished in fifty-two days and proper officers and watches were appointed. That setting places this numbering in B.C. 444.