The men of Michmas, an hundred and twenty and two.
The verse stands in the lists in Ezra and Nehemiah of the leading ones who went up from the captivity, giving the count of men from one place. The numbering in Nehemiah 7 is a renewed numbering of the Jews made after the wall was finished in fifty-two days and proper officers and watches were appointed. That finishing and ordering of the work is placed in B.C. 444.
The verse belongs to the record of Babylonian life in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah. The setting of that record is confirmed by discoveries in ancient lands adjoining Israel that had dealings with that people and by information from archaeology. It is simply names and numbers rather than an expressed precious promise to God's people. It is one of more than fifteen hundred such name-list verses, leaving only about thirty thousand verses that could possibly be promises and showing there cannot be thirty-six thousand distinct promises in the Bible.
The verse stands in the lists in Ezra and Nehemiah of the leading ones who went up from the captivity, giving the count of men from one place. The numbering in Nehemiah 7 is a renewed numbering of the Jews made after the wall was finished in fifty-two days and proper officers and watches were appointed. That finishing and ordering of the work is placed in B.C. 444.
The verse belongs to the record of Babylonian life in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah. The setting of that record is confirmed by discoveries in ancient lands adjoining Israel that had dealings with that people and by information from archaeology. It is simply names and numbers rather than an expressed precious promise to God's people. It is one of more than fifteen hundred such name-list verses, leaving only about thirty thousand verses that could possibly be promises and showing there cannot be thirty-six thousand distinct promises in the Bible.