Nehemiah

Nehemiah 1 - Nehemiah Prays for His People

The words of Nehemiah son of Hacaliah. In the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, while I was in Susa the capital, 2 one of my...

Nehemiah 2 - Nehemiah Sent to Judah, Nehemiah’s Inspection of the Walls, Decision to Restore Walls

In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was served him, I carried the wine and gave it to the king....

Nehemiah 3 - Organization of the Work

Then the high priest Eliashib set to work with his fellow priests and rebuilt the Sheep Gate. They consecrated it and set up its doors;...

Nehemiah 4 - Hostile Plots Thwarted

[a] Now when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry and greatly enraged, and he mocked the Jews. 2 He said in the...

Nehemiah 5 - Nehemiah Deals with Oppression, The Generosity of Nehemiah

Now there was a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish kin. 2 For there were those who said, “With our sons...

Nehemiah 6 - Intrigues of Enemies Foiled, The Wall Completed

Now when it was reported to Sanballat and Tobiah and to Geshem the Arab and to the rest of our enemies that I had built the wall and that...

Nehemiah 7 - Lists of the Returned Exiles, Ezra Summons the People to Obey the Law

Now when the wall had been built and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed, 2 I...

Nehemiah 8 - Ezra Summons the People to Obey the Law, The Festival of Booths Celebrated

All the people gathered together into the square before the Water Gate. They told the scribe Ezra to bring the book of the law of Moses,...

Nehemiah 9 - National Confession, Those Who Signed the Covenant

Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the people of Israel were assembled with fasting and in sackcloth, and with earth on their...

Nehemiah 10 - Summary of the Covenant

[a] Upon the sealed document are the names of Nehemiah the governor, son of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah; 2 Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,...

Nehemiah 11 - Population of the City Increased, Villages outside Jerusalem

Now the leaders of the people lived in Jerusalem; and the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to live in the holy city...

Nehemiah 12 - A List of Priests and Levites, Dedication of the City Wall, Temple Responsibilities

These are the priests and the Levites who came up with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra, 2 Amariah,...

Nehemiah 13 - Foreigners Separated from Israel, The Reforms of Nehemiah, Sabbath Reforms Begun

On that day they read from the book of Moses in the hearing of the people; and in it was found written that no Ammonite or Moabite should...

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