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Nehemiah 7

Nehemiah 7 — Overview

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

Nehemiah having built the wall, and set up the doors, appointed two persons to take the charge of the city, and set watches for the safety of it, and to take special care about opening and shutting the gates of it, Ne 7:1, and concerned he was for the peopling of it, and having found a register of the first comers to it, gives their names, Ne 7:4 and some account of the freewill offerings made for the work they came about, Ne 7:70.

Ver. 1. Now it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors,....

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