Sure we can add some âspiritualâ habits but we will never get beyond Nehemiah 6 and live in a smug but lost world of religiosity. Put your hopes on the eternal kingdom of God. Study Bible Overviews of the Books of Ezra & Nehemiah. 1:3). For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised the LORD. 4 And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven. But they thought to do me mischief. 15 Bunni, Azgad, Bebai, The Gates of Jerusalem are named throughout the Bible, such as the Gate of Ephraim in Second Kings 14:13, the Fish Gate in Second Chronicles 33:14 and Zephaniah 1:10, and the Sheep Gate in the Gospel of John 5:2. and Malachi. 33 And Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam, Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy. 19 Think upon me, my God, for good, according to all that I have done for this people. Joshua and the Promised Land, Many of you are more interested in going to movies then prayer meetings. and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel. This is because it is a continuing story: while Ezra works to re-establish the temple and the moral fabric of the people, Nehemiah arrives later to rebuild the city wall around Jerusalem and serve as governor. 20 After him Baruch the son of Zabbai earnestly repaired the other piece, from the turning of the wall unto the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest. 6 Wherein was written, It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel: for which cause thou buildest the wall, that thou mayest be their king, according to these words. 15 And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them. i. And it came to pass in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace, Spiritual frankness. Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer. 32 The men of Bethel and Ai, an hundred twenty and three. 15 And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written. Nehemiah offers hope and much more. Before this, citizens of Jerusalem had tried to rebuild the walls but had failed. 13 Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. 23 The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty and four. Nehemiah was also the man on his knees. 10 And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall. Some aged fathers might cry out from past memories, but their young just cared about getting on with life. And I gathered them together, and set them in their place. 17 And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not. 8 So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading. Chronicles, Ezra, And they said, Let us rise up and build. 8 And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous: 9 And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea; 15 So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days. THE BOOK OF NEHEMIAH: AN INTRODUCTION The story of Nehemiah is a love story – a story of God’s love for a people with whom he has a special covenant relationship. and 430 BC. 36 And his brethren, Shemaiah, and Azarael, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethaneel, and Judah, Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God, and Ezra the scribe before them. ÏοῦÏ. 5 And my God put into mine heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. The number, I say, of the men of the people of Israel was this; The following Scripture is from the Authorized King James Version of the Holy Bible, now in the public domain. Breakthrough the stereotypes. 7 We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses. 24 Hallohesh, Pileha, Shobek, Nehemiah authored it at about 430 B.C. Personal aspect: This speaks to us of the old ways of truth. PerseveranceA continued theme from the Book of Ezra, we follow God’s people as they transition from life in captivity back to life in their own land. 10 And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them: for the Levites and the singers, that did the work, were fled every one to his field. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence. Abraham the First Hebrew, 30 Thus cleansed I them from all strangers, and appointed the wards of the priests and the Levites, every one in his business; For it is these very walls that will be torn down. 25 Palal the son of Uzai, over against the turning of the wall, and the tower which lieth out from the king's high house, that was by the court of the prison. The difference can be seen between calm days where waves casually arrive at the shore with stormy days where the winds send their pounding waves one after another with their strong force. 44 And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for the offerings, for the firstfruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the portions of the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites that waited. Saul, Israel's First King, King David, And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity Be encouraged; He is not limited by your vocation. 7 Who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. 12 The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four. 8 And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it. âAll these died in faith, without receiving the promises, but having seen them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.