The verse stands in the renewed numbering of the Jews given in Nehemiah 7. That numbering came after the wall was finished in fifty-two days in spite of the plots of Sanballat, Geshem, and Tobiah. Even their enemies perceived that the work was wrought of God, and proper officers and watches were then appointed, in B.C. 444. It belongs to the narrative of life in Babylonian times in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah concerning Israel and the ancient lands adjoining Israel that had dealings with that people, a narrative confirmed by discoveries in those lands.
The verse stands in the renewed numbering of the Jews given in Nehemiah 7. That numbering came after the wall was finished in fifty-two days in spite of the plots of Sanballat, Geshem, and Tobiah. Even their enemies perceived that the work was wrought of God, and proper officers and watches were then appointed, in B.C. 444. It belongs to the narrative of life in Babylonian times in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah concerning Israel and the ancient lands adjoining Israel that had dealings with that people, a narrative confirmed by discoveries in those lands.