Nehemiah 7:73 - Exposition

And all Israel dwelt in their cities . The document found by Nehemiah (verse 5) probably ended with these words (romp. Ezra 2:70 ); and Nehemiah 7:1-73 . should here terminate, as it does in the Septuagint. Having completed the account of what happened in the sixth month, Elul ( Nehemiah 6:15 ), and transcribed the register which he had the good fortune to discover at that date, Nehemiah proceeds to relate events belonging to the seventh month.