“Now when the wall was built and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers and the singers and the Levites were appointed,”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Nehemiah 7 contains 73 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.