Nehemiah

Nehemiah 13: Nehemiah’s Reforms

Thus I cleansed them of everything pagan. Nehemiah 13:30 Nehemiah is shaken to find the solemn commitments the people made have not been kept. One priest has made apartments for Tobiah, the Jews’ enemy, in the temple storerooms (4, 5)!… (READ MORE)

Nehemiah 12: The Joy of Jerusalem

Then the priests and Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, the gates, and the wall. Nehemiah 12:30 Purification, Rejoicing and Dedication Priests and Levites: 12:1-26. The genealogies of worship leaders is given special attention, to assure their right to… (READ MORE)

Nehemiah 11: Jerusalem, Settled and Repopulated

And the people blessed all the men who willingly offered themselves to dwell at Jerusalem. Nehemiah 11:2 The Residents of Jerusalem Now Nehemiah repopulates Jerusalem. The people have been scattered in smaller communities. Now, partly as a security measure, Nehemiah… (READ MORE)

Nehemiah 10 Covenant Renewal – No More Compromise

Now those that sealed were… Nehemiah 10:1 The people now enter into a solemn covenant, swearing to be God’s people and to serve him. The principle of covenant renewal, by which a generation makes a personal commitment to God and… (READ MORE)

Nehemiah 9 Confession of Sins – We Are Slaves Today

“But after they had rest, They again did evil before You. Therefore You left them in the hand of their enemies, So that they had dominion over them; Yet when they returned and cried out to You, You heard from… (READ MORE)

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Nehemiah 8: Tears, Joy & Feast, after Understanding the Words of the Law

all the people wept, when they heard the words of the Law. Nehemiah 8:9 Ezra Reads God’s Law to the People: 8:1-18. In the fall of 444 B.C., shortly after completing the walls, Nehemiah calls the people together to hear… (READ MORE)

Nehemiah 7 Children of Israel, Live in their Holy City

And when the seventh month came, the children of Israel were in their cities. Nehemiah 7:73 Chapters 7-10. The Covenant Renewed With the walls complete, Nehemiah consults the census lists as a first step toward repopulating the holy city. Walls… (READ MORE)

Nehemiah 6: The Wall Rebuilt in 52 Days

For they all were trying to make us afraid, saying, “Their hands will be weakened in the work, and it will not be done.”Now therefore, O God, strengthen my hands. Nehemiah 6:9 The Plots of the Adversaries The plot against… (READ MORE)

Nehemiah 5: The Payment of Interest Abolished

… will you even sell your brethren? Or should they be sold to us?” Then they were silenced and found nothing to say. Then I said, “What you are doing is not good. Should you not walk in the fear… (READ MORE)

Nehemiah 4: So We Prayed

So we labored in the work, and half of the men held the spears from daybreak until the stars appeared.  Nehemiah 4:21 Building & Defending Opposition grows: 4:1-23. As progress is made on the walls, Sanballat becomes incensed. The peoples… (READ MORE)

Nehemiah 3 God’s City, God’s Work

Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests and built the Sheep Gate; they consecrated it and hung its doors. They built as far as the Tower of the Hundred, and consecrated it, then as far… (READ MORE)

Nehemiah 2 Let us Rebuild the Wall of Jerusalem

Send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ tombs, that I may rebuild it.  Nehemiah 2:5 Then I said to them, “You see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned… (READ MORE)