Nehemiah 7:66 KJV

Difficult Passages

• Why do Ezra’s and Nehemiah’s lists of the returning families differ?Ezra gives the list taken when the people set out from Babylon; Nehemiah, the register of the company as it came up.

Matthew Henry

• Register of those that first returnedNehemiah knew that the safety of a city, under God, depends more upon the inhabitants than upon its walls. Every good gift and every good work are from...

Topics

• Genealogy Of the Jews who returned from the captivity
• Israel Number of, after the captivity
• Israel, prophecies concerning Nehemiah is commissioned to lead the remainder of the captivity, forty-nine thousand nine-hundred and forty-two go back to Canaan
• Levites The list of those who returned from captivity
• Maneh Rendered pound
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Timeline

• Timeline of the Bible446 BC · Nehemiah Builds the Wall

Hebrew and Strong’s

• The whole congregation כָּל kol H3605 Noun · masculine singular construct הַקָּהָל haqqāhāl H6951 קָהָל Noun · masculine singular · with the
• together כְּאֶחָד kĕʾeḥād H259 אֶחָד Number · masculine singular · with preposition
• forty אַרְבַּע ʾarbaʿ H702 אַרְבַּע Number · feminine singular רִבּוֹא ribbôʾ H7239 רִבּוֹ Number · masculine or feminine singular
• and two thousand אַלְפַּיִם ʾalpayim H505 אֶלֶף Number · masculine or feminine plural
• three שְׁלֹשׁ šĕlōš H7969 שָׁלוֹשׁ Number · feminine singular
• hundred מֵאוֹת mēʾwōt H3967 מֵאָה Number · masculine or feminine plural
• and threescore וְשִׁשִּׁים wĕšiššîm H8346 שִׁשִּׁים Number · masculine or feminine plural · with and

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