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Nehemiah 7 Summary
Gates Set and Genealogy Recorded
After the wall's completion, Nehemiah appoints gatekeepers, singers, and Levites. He assigns his brother Hanani and Hananiah to oversee Jerusalem with strict rules for opening the gates. Nehemiah realizes the city is large but sparsely populated, so he gathers the people by genealogy, finding a register of those who returned from Babylon under Zerubbabel. The chapter records extensive lists of families and their numbers by clan.
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Key verses
Nehemiah 7:1
“Now it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed,”
Nehemiah 7:5
“And my God put into mine heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them which came up at the first, and found written therein,”
Nehemiah 7:6
“These are the children of the province, that went up out of the captivity, of those that had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and came again to Jerusalem and to Judah, every one unto his city;”
Nehemiah 7:7
“Who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number, I say, of the men of the people of Israel was this;”
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