The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
The book of Nehemiah is supplemental to Ezra and is called the second book of Ezra in the Jewish scriptures. Both Ezra and Nehemiah give the history of the Jews during the period of restoration. The Babylonian life and setting of those days is made known by the records and discoveries of the ancient lands adjoining Israel that had dealings with that people.
Ezra held the position of priest, while Nehemiah was governor, having been cup-bearer to Artaxerxes Longimanus. Artaxerxes gave Nehemiah permission to return with a colony of Jews in 455 B.C. The work was bitterly opposed by factions led by Sanballat, Tobiah, and Geshem, but God prospered the work of his hands. Nehemiah was ever diligent and ever zealous for God, continually bringing his faithfulness before the Lord and pleading the Lord's blessing because of it.
The wall of Jerusalem was finished in fifty-two days, so that even their enemies perceived that the work was wrought of God, and proper officers and watches were then appointed over the city. This verse is one item in the numbering of the Jews given again in Nehemiah 7 after that completion, belonging to B.C. 444. It stands as part of the lists in Ezra and Nehemiah of the leading ones who went up from the captivity.
It gives names and numbers of persons rather than an expressed precious promise to God's people. It belongs with more than fifteen hundred verses in the Bible that are simply names of persons, including over five hundred verses in twelve chapters of 1 Chronicles. From twenty-three thousand five hundred and fifty-six verses in the Old Testament and seven thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven in the New Testament, thirty-one thousand five hundred and thirteen in all, the verses that could be promises are thus reduced to about thirty thousand, six thousand less than thirty-six thousand.
The book of Nehemiah is supplemental to Ezra and is called the second book of Ezra in the Jewish scriptures. Both Ezra and Nehemiah give the history of the Jews during the period of restoration. The Babylonian life and setting of those days is made known by the records and discoveries of the ancient lands adjoining Israel that had dealings with that people.
Ezra held the position of priest, while Nehemiah was governor, having been cup-bearer to Artaxerxes Longimanus. Artaxerxes gave Nehemiah permission to return with a colony of Jews in 455 B.C. The work was bitterly opposed by factions led by Sanballat, Tobiah, and Geshem, but God prospered the work of his hands. Nehemiah was ever diligent and ever zealous for God, continually bringing his faithfulness before the Lord and pleading the Lord's blessing because of it.
The wall of Jerusalem was finished in fifty-two days, so that even their enemies perceived that the work was wrought of God, and proper officers and watches were then appointed over the city. This verse is one item in the numbering of the Jews given again in Nehemiah 7 after that completion, belonging to B.C. 444. It stands as part of the lists in Ezra and Nehemiah of the leading ones who went up from the captivity.
It gives names and numbers of persons rather than an expressed precious promise to God's people. It belongs with more than fifteen hundred verses in the Bible that are simply names of persons, including over five hundred verses in twelve chapters of 1 Chronicles. From twenty-three thousand five hundred and fifty-six verses in the Old Testament and seven thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven in the New Testament, thirty-one thousand five hundred and thirteen in all, the verses that could be promises are thus reduced to about thirty thousand, six thousand less than thirty-six thousand.