The children of Bigvai, two thousand threescore and seven.
The listing belongs to the renewed numbering of the Jews recorded after the wall was finished in fifty-two days. That numbering followed the completion of the wall and the setting of proper officers and watches over the city. The event is dated to B.C. 444. The chapter illustrates Babylonian life in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah, a subject illuminated by archaeology and its rapid development. It belongs to the Bible narrative confirmed by discoveries in ancient lands adjoining Israel that had dealings with Israel.
The listing belongs to the renewed numbering of the Jews recorded after the wall was finished in fifty-two days. That numbering followed the completion of the wall and the setting of proper officers and watches over the city. The event is dated to B.C. 444. The chapter illustrates Babylonian life in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah, a subject illuminated by archaeology and its rapid development. It belongs to the Bible narrative confirmed by discoveries in ancient lands adjoining Israel that had dealings with Israel.