The men of Kirjath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty and three.
The book containing this enumeration is supplemental to Ezra and is reckoned in the Jewish scriptures as the second book of Ezra. At this time Nehemiah served as governor while Ezra served as priest. Nehemiah had been cup-bearer to the Persian king Artaxerxes Longimanus, who gave him permission to return with a colony of Jews in 455 B.C.
In its immediate setting the entry belongs to the giving again of the number of the Jews in Nehemiah 7 after the wall was finished in fifty-two days, when proper officers and watches were appointed, in B.C. 444. The work surrounding it met bitter opposition from factions led by Sanballat, Tobiah, and Geshem. Yet God prospered the work of his hands, because Nehemiah was ever diligent and ever zealous for God and continually brought his faithfulness before the Lord pleading for blessing.
Like Ezra, the book is valuable for giving the history of the Jews during the period of restoration. It belongs to the record of Babylonian life in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah, a Bible narrative confirmed and illuminated by discoveries in ancient lands adjoining Israel that had dealings with that people.
The book containing this enumeration is supplemental to Ezra and is reckoned in the Jewish scriptures as the second book of Ezra. At this time Nehemiah served as governor while Ezra served as priest. Nehemiah had been cup-bearer to the Persian king Artaxerxes Longimanus, who gave him permission to return with a colony of Jews in 455 B.C.
In its immediate setting the entry belongs to the giving again of the number of the Jews in Nehemiah 7 after the wall was finished in fifty-two days, when proper officers and watches were appointed, in B.C. 444. The work surrounding it met bitter opposition from factions led by Sanballat, Tobiah, and Geshem. Yet God prospered the work of his hands, because Nehemiah was ever diligent and ever zealous for God and continually brought his faithfulness before the Lord pleading for blessing.
Like Ezra, the book is valuable for giving the history of the Jews during the period of restoration. It belongs to the record of Babylonian life in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah, a Bible narrative confirmed and illuminated by discoveries in ancient lands adjoining Israel that had dealings with that people.