The verse is a name-and-number entry recording the 1,017 children of Harim among the people who returned from captivity. It belongs to the renewed numbering of the Jews in B.C. 444 after the wall was finished in fifty-two days. That numbering followed the appointment of proper officers and watches, at a time when even their enemies perceived that the work was wrought of God. It belongs to the narrative of Babylonian life in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah, a history confirmed by discoveries in the ancient lands adjoining Israel that had dealings with that people. It illustrates that many Bible verses are records of names rather than expressed promises.
The verse is a name-and-number entry recording the 1,017 children of Harim among the people who returned from captivity. It belongs to the renewed numbering of the Jews in B.C. 444 after the wall was finished in fifty-two days. That numbering followed the appointment of proper officers and watches, at a time when even their enemies perceived that the work was wrought of God. It belongs to the narrative of Babylonian life in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah, a history confirmed by discoveries in the ancient lands adjoining Israel that had dealings with that people. It illustrates that many Bible verses are records of names rather than expressed promises.