The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty and eight.
The count is part of the renewed numbering of the Jews given in Nehemiah 7 after the wall was finished in fifty-two days. It was made when proper officers and watches had been appointed, in B.C. 444. It belongs to the biblical account of Babylonian life in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah. That account is confirmed by discoveries in ancient lands adjoining Israel that had dealings with Israel.
The count is part of the renewed numbering of the Jews given in Nehemiah 7 after the wall was finished in fifty-two days. It was made when proper officers and watches had been appointed, in B.C. 444. It belongs to the biblical account of Babylonian life in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah. That account is confirmed by discoveries in ancient lands adjoining Israel that had dealings with Israel.