The children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Phaseah,
The verse stands within the renewed numbering of the Jews recorded in Nehemiah 7. That renewed register was drawn up after the wall had been completed in fifty-two days and after proper officers and watches had been appointed. The numbering to which it belongs dates to 444 B.C.
It forms part of the biblical account of life in the Babylonian period in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah. That account is confirmed and illuminated by discoveries from ancient lands adjoining Israel that had dealings with that people, with archaeology supplying information about its setting.
The verse stands within the renewed numbering of the Jews recorded in Nehemiah 7. That renewed register was drawn up after the wall had been completed in fifty-two days and after proper officers and watches had been appointed. The numbering to which it belongs dates to 444 B.C.
It forms part of the biblical account of life in the Babylonian period in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah. That account is confirmed and illuminated by discoveries from ancient lands adjoining Israel that had dealings with that people, with archaeology supplying information about its setting.