The numbering of the Jews is given again in Nehemiah 7 after the wall was finished in fifty-two days and proper officers and watches were appointed, in B.C. 444. This verse stands in that renewed numbering. It belongs to the lists in Ezra and Nehemiah of the leading ones who went up from the captivity.
It is not an expressed promise but one of more than fifteen hundred verses containing simply names of persons. Like threatenings of God's wrath, denunciations of evil, genealogies, and lists of places, nations, cities, and kings, such name verses cannot be counted as precious promises to God's people. After subtracting those name verses about thirty thousand verses remain out of thirty-one thousand five hundred and thirteen verses in the whole Bible — twenty-three thousand five hundred and fifty-six in the Old Testament and seven thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven in the New Testament — so not every verse is a promise and thirty-six thousand distinct promises is more than the Bible contains. It belongs to the record of life in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah that discoveries from Babylon and adjoining lands illuminate, confirming the Bible narrative.
The numbering of the Jews is given again in Nehemiah 7 after the wall was finished in fifty-two days and proper officers and watches were appointed, in B.C. 444. This verse stands in that renewed numbering. It belongs to the lists in Ezra and Nehemiah of the leading ones who went up from the captivity.
It is not an expressed promise but one of more than fifteen hundred verses containing simply names of persons. Like threatenings of God's wrath, denunciations of evil, genealogies, and lists of places, nations, cities, and kings, such name verses cannot be counted as precious promises to God's people. After subtracting those name verses about thirty thousand verses remain out of thirty-one thousand five hundred and thirteen verses in the whole Bible — twenty-three thousand five hundred and fifty-six in the Old Testament and seven thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven in the New Testament — so not every verse is a promise and thirty-six thousand distinct promises is more than the Bible contains. It belongs to the record of life in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah that discoveries from Babylon and adjoining lands illuminate, confirming the Bible narrative.