Nehemiah 10:6 belongs to the record of the remnant's solemn covenant after returning to Jerusalem to keep the law of Moses that Ezra had brought back, documenting their condition and the covenant they entered. It gives no further explanation of the names it lists. The Daniel named here is not Daniel the prophet, but a man who lived eighty or more years later, for Daniel the prophet died in the days of Cyrus and did not return to Jerusalem. Daniel was not an uncommon name, and one of David's sons was also named Daniel.
The verse consists simply of the names of persons and is not an expressed precious promise to God's people. It belongs with many other name-list passages, including the lists in Ezra and Nehemiah of the leading ones who went up from the captivity and of those who had married strange wives, the records of Adam's posterity and the descendants of Noah's sons and of Esau, Jacob, Reuben and Aaron, the courses of the priests and the heads of Israel, the places of journeyings and the nations, cities and kings taken by Israel, David's mighty men, twelve chapters of 1 Chronicles that are nearly all names of persons, and the genealogy of Christ and the lists of names in the epistles in the New Testament. More than fifteen hundred verses are of this name-list kind, and with twenty-three thousand five hundred fifty-six verses in the Old Testament and seven thousand nine hundred fifty-seven in the New Testament for a total of thirty-one thousand five hundred thirteen, such verses reduce the verses that could be counted as promises to about thirty thousand, showing that there are not thirty-six thousand distinct expressed promises in the Bible. The verse belongs to the days of Ezra and Nehemiah when Israel had dealings with the ancient lands adjoining it, and discoveries about Babylonian life in those days confirm the biblical narrative and illuminate its setting.
Nehemiah 10:6 belongs to the record of the remnant's solemn covenant after returning to Jerusalem to keep the law of Moses that Ezra had brought back, documenting their condition and the covenant they entered. It gives no further explanation of the names it lists. The Daniel named here is not Daniel the prophet, but a man who lived eighty or more years later, for Daniel the prophet died in the days of Cyrus and did not return to Jerusalem. Daniel was not an uncommon name, and one of David's sons was also named Daniel.
The verse consists simply of the names of persons and is not an expressed precious promise to God's people. It belongs with many other name-list passages, including the lists in Ezra and Nehemiah of the leading ones who went up from the captivity and of those who had married strange wives, the records of Adam's posterity and the descendants of Noah's sons and of Esau, Jacob, Reuben and Aaron, the courses of the priests and the heads of Israel, the places of journeyings and the nations, cities and kings taken by Israel, David's mighty men, twelve chapters of 1 Chronicles that are nearly all names of persons, and the genealogy of Christ and the lists of names in the epistles in the New Testament. More than fifteen hundred verses are of this name-list kind, and with twenty-three thousand five hundred fifty-six verses in the Old Testament and seven thousand nine hundred fifty-seven in the New Testament for a total of thirty-one thousand five hundred thirteen, such verses reduce the verses that could be counted as promises to about thirty thousand, showing that there are not thirty-six thousand distinct expressed promises in the Bible. The verse belongs to the days of Ezra and Nehemiah when Israel had dealings with the ancient lands adjoining it, and discoveries about Babylonian life in those days confirm the biblical narrative and illuminate its setting.