Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 7. Who came with ZerubbHebel] The register which he found was that of the persons only who came long before ZerubbHebel, Ezra, and Joshua the son of Josedek, which register could not answer in every respect to the state of the people then. Several persons and families were no doubt dead, and others had arrived since. Nehemiah probably altered it only in such parts, leaving the body of it as it was before; and this will account for the difference between it and the register that is found in Ezra, chap. ii.
John Gill's Bible Commentary gill16z7z7
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 5-73 - Nehemiah knew that the safety of a city, under God, depends more upo the inhabitants than upon its walls. Every good gift and every goo work are from above. God gives knowledge, he gives grace; all is of him, and therefore all must be to him. What is done by human prudence must be ascribed to the direction of Divine Providence. But woe to those who turn back from the Lord, loving this present world! and happ those who dedicate themselves, and their substance, to his service an glory _________________________________________________
Original Hebrew הבאים935 עם5973 זרבבל2216 ישׁוע3442 נחמיה5166 עזריה5838 רעמיה7485 נחמני5167 מרדכי4782 בלשׁן1114 מספרת4559 בגוי902 נחום5149 בענה1196 מספר4557 אנשׁי376 עם5971 ישׂראל׃3478
