The list of returnees would be seen as a proclamation of the grace of God who had preserved his people during the rigours of exile as a remnant that would return.1
The list of returnees would be seen as a proclamation of the grace of God who had preserved his people during the rigours of exile as a remnant that would return.1
1 These are the heads of their fathers’ houses, and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylonia, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king: