Pilha is mentioned in the book of Nehemiah as one of the leaders among the people who placed their seal on the covenant with God after returning from the Babylonian exile. He was among those who committed themselves to follow God's law and remain separate from the surrounding nations. Beyond this act of sealing, little is known about his life.
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Sealing of the Covenant
Pilha was one of the leaders among the people who placed their seal on the written covenant to follow God's law, as Nehemiah organized it.
Together with others who sealed the covenant, Pilha committed himself to walk according to God's law given through Moses and to keep all the Lord's commands and statutes.
29The rest of the people—the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands in order to follow the Law of God, together with their wives, their sons, and their daughters, all who had the knowledge to understand—
Those who sealed the covenant, including Pilha, promised not to give their daughters in marriage to the foreign peoples of the land or take their daughters as wives for their sons.
30joined with their brothers, the nobles, and bound themselves with a curse and an oath to walk in the Law of God, given through Moses the servant of God, and to keep and carry out all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, with his judgments and his statutes: