The men of Beth-azmaveth are numbered at forty and two, in the renewed numbering of the Jews given in Nehemiah 7. That numbering belongs to the lists in Ezra and Nehemiah of the leading ones who went up from the captivity. It is set after the wall was finished in fifty-two days and after proper officers and watches were appointed, in B.C. 444.
It belongs to the record of Babylonian life in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah, part of the Bible narrative confirmed by discoveries in ancient lands adjoining Israel and having dealings with that people. It is simply a verse of names and numbers rather than an expressed precious promise to God's people. It stands with more than fifteen hundred such name verses to show that not every verse in the Bible is a promise.
The men of Beth-azmaveth are numbered at forty and two, in the renewed numbering of the Jews given in Nehemiah 7. That numbering belongs to the lists in Ezra and Nehemiah of the leading ones who went up from the captivity. It is set after the wall was finished in fifty-two days and after proper officers and watches were appointed, in B.C. 444.
It belongs to the record of Babylonian life in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah, part of the Bible narrative confirmed by discoveries in ancient lands adjoining Israel and having dealings with that people. It is simply a verse of names and numbers rather than an expressed precious promise to God's people. It stands with more than fifteen hundred such name verses to show that not every verse in the Bible is a promise.