The children of Solomon’s servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,
The verse names Sotai, Sophereth, and Perida as families reckoned among the children of Solomon's servants. It belongs to the renewed numbering of the Jews in Nehemiah 7, listing those who returned from captivity after the wall was finished in fifty-two days and officers and watches were appointed, in B.C. 444. It is part of a list of names of returned people, not an expressed promise.
It stands within the narrative of Babylonian life in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah that is confirmed by discoveries in ancient lands adjoining Israel and illuminated by archaeology.
The verse names Sotai, Sophereth, and Perida as families reckoned among the children of Solomon's servants. It belongs to the renewed numbering of the Jews in Nehemiah 7, listing those who returned from captivity after the wall was finished in fifty-two days and officers and watches were appointed, in B.C. 444. It is part of a list of names of returned people, not an expressed promise.
It stands within the narrative of Babylonian life in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah that is confirmed by discoveries in ancient lands adjoining Israel and illuminated by archaeology.