The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, and of the children of Hodevah, seventy and four.
The verse stands in Nehemiah 5-8, joined with Matthew 1 as the reading for the July 4 Sabbath. The book of Nehemiah is supplemental to Ezra, is called the second book of Ezra in the Jewish scriptures, and together with Ezra gives the history of the Jews during the restoration. In that history Ezra held the position of priest while Nehemiah was governor, having been cup-bearer to Artaxerxes Longimanus, who in 455 B.C. gave him permission to return with a colony of Jews.
The verse lists the Levites among those associated with the restoration of Jerusalem. The chapter's record belongs to the account of the Jews' conflicts and victories under Nehemiah's reform work. In that work Nehemiah was bitterly opposed by factions led by Sanballat, Tobiah, and Geshem, yet God prospered the work of his hands. He remained ever diligent and ever zealous for God, continually bringing his faithfulness before the Lord and pleading for the Lord's blessing because of it.
The verse stands in Nehemiah 5-8, joined with Matthew 1 as the reading for the July 4 Sabbath. The book of Nehemiah is supplemental to Ezra, is called the second book of Ezra in the Jewish scriptures, and together with Ezra gives the history of the Jews during the restoration. In that history Ezra held the position of priest while Nehemiah was governor, having been cup-bearer to Artaxerxes Longimanus, who in 455 B.C. gave him permission to return with a colony of Jews.
The verse lists the Levites among those associated with the restoration of Jerusalem. The chapter's record belongs to the account of the Jews' conflicts and victories under Nehemiah's reform work. In that work Nehemiah was bitterly opposed by factions led by Sanballat, Tobiah, and Geshem, yet God prospered the work of his hands. He remained ever diligent and ever zealous for God, continually bringing his faithfulness before the Lord and pleading for the Lord's blessing because of it.