# Connecting Statement:

In these verses, Nehemiah continues to list the provincial officers who lived in Jerusalem.

# Maaseiah ... Baruch ... Kol-Hozeh ... Hazaiah ... Adaiah ... Joiarib ... Zechariah

These are the names of men. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-names]])

# Shilonite

This refers to a person who comes from the town of Shiloh.