Summary of the Book of Nehemia The book of Nehemiah is Narrative History. Key personalities include Nehemiah, Ezra, Sanballat, and Tobiah. Nehemiah wrote it to record the events of returning to Jerusalem and rebuilding the walls in 445 B.C. Jerusalem had a temple but there was no protection for the city from further attack. Nehemiah […]
Now that Your new house and temple are built, what’s going to happen? The genealogy of Ezra lists ancestors back to Aaron (Ezra 7:1-5). “This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the Lord God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request,
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What are You going to do now that the building of Your house is being sabotaged? “Then the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied unto the Jews that were in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, even unto them. Then rose up Zerubbabel the son
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Is this house going to take seven years to build like it did with Solomon? “Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity builded the temple unto the Lord God of Israel; Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said unto them, Let us
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I see that You have a plan and it doesn’t matter how people live in regards to that plan. You do whatever is necessary to keep the ball rolling, whether it’s for or against the people because Your plan is the righteous and holy matter at hand. “Now in the first year of Cyrus king
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