The men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty and one.
The book containing this numbering is supplemental to Ezra and is called the second book of Ezra in the Jewish scriptures, giving the history of the Jews during the restoration. Its broader setting is the governorship of Nehemiah, cup-bearer to Artaxerxes Longimanus, who returned with a colony of Jews in 455 B.C. He was bitterly opposed by factions led by Sanballat, Tobiah, and Geshem, yet prospered by God in the work of his hands. He was ever diligent and zealous for God and pleaded the Lord's blessing because of his faithfulness. Its immediate setting is the renewed numbering of the Jews after the wall was finished in fifty-two days and officers and watches were appointed over Jerusalem, in B.C. 444. It belongs to the Bible narrative of Babylonian life in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah, a narrative confirmed by discoveries in ancient lands adjoining the land of Israel that had dealings with that people.
The book containing this numbering is supplemental to Ezra and is called the second book of Ezra in the Jewish scriptures, giving the history of the Jews during the restoration. Its broader setting is the governorship of Nehemiah, cup-bearer to Artaxerxes Longimanus, who returned with a colony of Jews in 455 B.C. He was bitterly opposed by factions led by Sanballat, Tobiah, and Geshem, yet prospered by God in the work of his hands. He was ever diligent and zealous for God and pleaded the Lord's blessing because of his faithfulness. Its immediate setting is the renewed numbering of the Jews after the wall was finished in fifty-two days and officers and watches were appointed over Jerusalem, in B.C. 444. It belongs to the Bible narrative of Babylonian life in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah, a narrative confirmed by discoveries in ancient lands adjoining the land of Israel that had dealings with that people.