Remember Nehemiah 7.4: Now the city was large and spacious, but the people in it were few and the houses were not built.1) (NASB) The city needed citizens to defend, govern, and form the socio-economic center for the people. Matthew Henry suggests that one of the reasons for this list is to honor the people who were willing to move into the city.2) Kidner adds that this was important to show a “dignity of order and of know relationships; above all, of their calling to be a 'kingdom of priests and a holy nation'.” 3)