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[Nehemiah 7:2](../../../kjv/nehemiah/7/2) **.** *I gave my brother Hanani,* probably his eldest brother, who had come to Shushan to represent the injuries sustained by the Jews, from the governor in Samaria: [Nehemiah 1:2](../../../kjv/nehemiah/1/2). *And Hananiah, ruler of the palace, charge over Jerusalem;* Nehemiah being bound by promise to return to Persia.
[Nehemiah 7:4](../../../kjv/nehemiah/7/4) **.** *The city was large and great.* The walls round about the upper and lower city, might be about a hundred furlongs, or twelve miles. The population of forty three thousand Hebrews, and seven thousand servants, as in [Nehemiah 7:67](../../../kjv/nehemiah/7/67), amount to fifty thousand. This was only a tenth part of the population, in the happier days of Jerusalem.
[Nehemiah 7:7](../../../kjv/nehemiah/7/7) **.** Who *came with Zerubbabel. Azariah,* called Seraiah in Esdras. Those twelve held the first place at the court. The heads of families that follow are much the same as in [Ezra 2](../../../kjv/ezra/2)., and also in the Chronicles. These were accounted by the Jews to be nobles and elders.
[Nehemiah 7:68-69](../../../kjv/nehemiah/7/68-69) **.** *Their horses seven hundred and thirty six,* which, it would seem, were kept for yeomen: [Nehemiah 11:14](../../../kjv/nehemiah/11/14). *Mules, two hundred and forty five,* for the better sort of people. *Camels, four hundred and thirty five,* for trade across the deserts. *Asses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty,* for plowing and ascending the hills.

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