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Nehemiah 7 — Sermon Preparation
Nehemiah appoints gatekeepers, singers, and Levites for Jerusalem, then finds the register of the first-generation returnees and records their numbers. Below is a research summary for Nehemiah 7, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 72
- verses
- 626 / 255
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 4
- classic sermon excerpts
- 2
- preachers & commentators
Nehemiah 7 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| מֵאָה | mêʼâh | H3967 | 39 | hundred |
| אֶלֶף | ʼeleph | H505 | 16 | thousand |
| שְׁמֹנֶה | shᵉmôneh | H8083 | 11 | eight, eighth |
| שָׁלוֹשׁ | shâlôwsh | H7969 | 13 | three, third |
| שְׁנַיִם | shᵉnayim | H8147 | 13 | two, twofold |
| עֶשְׂרִים | ʻesrîym | H6242 | 11 | twenty, twentieth |
| שֶׁבַע | shebaʻ | H7651 | 11 | seven, full |
How preachers through history handled this text
4 public-domain excerpts on Nehemiah 7, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“The success of one good design for God and our generation should encourage us to proceed and form some other; Nehemiah did so, having fortified Jerusalem with gates and walls, his next care is, I. To see the city well kept, ver. 1-4. II. To see it well peopled, in order to which he here reviews and calls over the register of the children of the captivity, the families that returned at first, and records it, ver. 5-73. It is the same, in effect, with that which we had, Ezra ii. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 2 (Joshua to Esther), on Nehemiah 7:1–73 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Jerusalem— Neh 7:2
- Gibeon— Neh 7:25
- Bethlehem 1— Neh 7:26
- Netophah— Neh 7:26
- Anathoth— Neh 7:27
- Azmaveth— Neh 7:28
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