Rebuilding the Community Take 2
Nehemiah 13 Nehemiah’s Final Reforms 1On 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 […]
Category: Nehemiah
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Rebuilding Community Through Repentance & Revival
Nehemiah 9 1 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 heads. 2 And the Israelites […]
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Rebuilding the Community – By the Book
Nehemiah 8 Ezra Reads the Law And all the people gathered as one man into the square before the Water Gate. And they told Ezra the scribe to bring the Book of […]
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Rebuilding Step 7: The Final Push
Conspiracy Against Nehemiah 6 Now when Sanballat and Tobiah and Geshem the Arab and the rest of our enemies heard that I had built the wall and that there was no breach left […]
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Rebuilding Step 6: Confrontation & Compassionate Generosity
Nehemiah Stops Oppression of the Poor 5 Now there arose a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brothers. 2 For there were those who said, “With our sons and […]
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Rebuilding Step 5: Facing and Responding to Opposition
Nehemiah 4 Opposition to the Work 4 [a] Now when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry and greatly enraged, and he jeered at the Jews. 2 And he said in […]
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Rebuilding Step 4: Get Together, Get Organized
Nehemiah 3:1-32 Rebuilding the Wall Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the Sheep Gate. They consecrated it and set its doors. They consecrated it […]
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Rebuilding Step 3: Share Vision, Expect Opposition
Nehemiah 2:9-20 Nehemiah Inspects Jerusalem’s Walls 9 Then I came to the governors of the province Beyond the River and gave them the king’s letters. Now the king had sent with me […]
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Rebuilding Step 2: The Plan
Nehemiah 1:11-2:8 11 O Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants who delight to fear your name, and give success […]
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Rebuilding Step 1: Prayer
Report from Jerusalem 1 The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah. Now it happened in the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Susa the citadel, 2 that Hanani, one of my brothers, […]