He asked them in the month Kislev, in the twentieth year.

Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah wrote the book of Nehemiah.

They replied that those who remained in the province were in great evil and reproach because Jerusalem’s wall was broken down and its gates were burned with fire.

He sat down and wept, and he mourned for days. He also fasted and prayed.

Nehemiah requested that Yahweh would listen to his prayer. Nehemiah requested that Yahweh would remember the word he commanded Moses, promising to gather the scattered Israelites if they returned to him and kept his commandments. Nehemiah requested that Yahweh would give him success and grant him mercy.

Nehemiah confessed the sins of the people of Israel and his own sins and the sins of his family. Nehemiah said they had acted very corruptly against Yahweh and had not kept the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments that Yahweh had commanded Moses.

Nehemiah requested that Yahweh would listen to his prayer. Nehemiah requested that Yahweh would remember the word he commanded Moses, promising to gather the scattered Israelites if they returned to him and kept his commandments. Nehemiah requested that Yahweh would give him success and grant him mercy.

Nehemiah served as cupbearer to the king.

Nehemiah gave wine to the king in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes.

He was sad because Jerusalem, the city of the graves of his fathers, was desolate and its gates had been consumed by fire.

Nehemiah wanted permission from the king to go to Judah to rebuild the city.

Nehemiah prayed to the God of heaven.

Sanballat and Tobiah were displeased that someone had come who wanted to seek good for the people of Israel.

At that time, Nehemiah did not tell anyone what his God had put into his heart to do for Jerusalem.

They said that they would rise and build, and they strengthened their hands for the good work.

Nehemiah responded by saying that God would give them success, that they were God’s servants, and that Sanballat, Tobiah, and Geshem had no share, no right, and no memorial in Jerusalem.

Eliashib built and consecrated the Sheep Gate along with his brothers, the priests.

The sons of Hassenaah built the Fish Gate.

The nobles of the Tekoites refused to do the work.

Joiada and Meshullam repaired the Old Gate.

Uzziel and Hananiah repaired that portion of Jerusalem.

Malkijah (the son of Harim) and Hasshub repaired another section and the Tower of Ovens.

His daughters helped him.

Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah repaired the Valley Gate and the entire portion of wall between the Valley Gate and the Dung Gate.

Malkijah (the son of Recab) repaired the Dung Gate.

Shallun repaired the Fountain Gate and the wall of the Pool of Siloam.

Nehemiah the son of Azbuk repaired that section.

Baruch repaired it.

They repaired the section in front of their own house.

The priests repaired that section. Each of the priests repaired in front of his own house.

The goldsmiths and the merchants repaired that section.

Sanballat and Tobiah mocked the Jews.

Nehemiah asked God not to cover their iniquity because they had contempt for the Jews and provoked the builders to anger.

They prayed to their God and set a guard as protection.

After learning of the schemes against them, Nehemiah positioned people in the lowest parts of the wall, in the bare areas. He positioned each family with their weapons. Nehemiah told the people to not be afraid of their enemies, but to remember the great and fearsome Lord and to fight for their families and homes.

They heard that the workers knew their plans and that God had frustrated their plans.

Half of them were working on rebuilding the wall and half of them were holding their weapons and armor.

Nehemiah explained that the workers were separated on the wall, far from one another.

Some people did not go to their homes or change their clothes so that they could spend the night in the middle of Jerusalem, being a guard during the night and a worker in the day.

They raised an outcry because some of them had to mortgage their property in order to get grain, some of them had to put their children in bondage as slaves, and some of them had to borrow silver in order to pay the kings taxes on their fields and vineyards.

He contended with the nobles and with the prefects and said to them, “You are lending interest, a man against his brother!” And he put forth a great assembly against them.

They were selling their brothers and sisters, who were then being bought back by other Jewish men and women.

He commanded them to do that because what they were doing was not good.

They said they would return what they had taken, that they would not take anything more, and that they would do as Nehemiah commanded.

He did not do so because he feared God, and because the former governors had laid heavy burdens on the people.

Those who ate at Nehemiah’s table were the Jews and the prefects, 150 men, and also those who came to Nehemiah from among the nations who were around them.

Nehemiah asked God to do this because of all that he (Nehemiah) had done for the people.

Sanballat, Tobiah, and Geshem intended to do evil to Nehemiah.

Nehemiah sent messengers to them saying, “I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?”

He said that all the nations had reported that Nehemiah and the Jews were planning to rebel, and the king would certainly hear these reports.

Nehemiah responded by saying that Sanballat had invented the reports in his own heart.

Nehemiah prayed that God would strengthen his hands.

Nehemiah responded by saying Sanballat had invented the reports in his own heart.

Nehemiah refused because he thought a man like himself should neither run away to save his own life nor hide in the temple.

He would have sinned and given himself a bad name, and Sanballat and Tobiah might have reproached him.

He prayed God would remember Tobiah, and Sanballat according to their deeds, as well as the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets who were trying to frighten Nehemiah.

They became afraid because they knew the work was done with the help of the Jews’ God.

Nehemiah gave Hanani charge of Jerusalem after he (Nehemiah) had finished the wall, set up the doors, and appointed the gatekeepers, singers, and Levites.

The gates were supposed to be opened when the sun became hot.

There were few people within the city, and no built houses.

God put into Nehemiah’s heart to gather together the nobles, the prefects, and the people to be enrolled by genealogy.

The priests who could not find their genealogical records were desecrated from the priesthood. The Tirshatha said that they should not be allowed to eat the holy food from the sacrifices until a priest stood with Urim and Thummim.

The priests who could not find their genealogical records were desecrated from the priesthood. The Tirshatha said they should not be allowed to eat the priest’s share of food from the sacrifices.

They might be included when there was a priest to stand with Urim and Thummim.

The whole assembly was counted to be 42,360 people.

Some of the heads of ancestors’ families gave gifts, as did both the Tirshatha and the rest of the people.

They lived in their cities by the seventh month.

The people gathered together to listen to the book of the law.

Men, women, and anyone who could understand gathered to listen to it.

The people gathered together to listen to the book of the law of Moses.

Ezra and the Levites read from the book of the law.

Ezra and the Levites read from the book of the law.

They did those things so that the people could understand the reading.

They commanded the people to celebrate and not to mourn, weep, or grieve because the day was holy to Yahweh their God and because the joy of Yahweh was their strength.

They learned that Yahweh had commanded the people of Israel to live in tents during the festival of the seventh month.

The people made their huts on their own roofs, in their courtyards, in the courts of the house of God, in the open place by the Water Gate, and in the square at the Gate of Ephraim.

The people made their huts on their own roofs, in their courtyards, in the courts of the house of God, in the open place by the Water Gate, and in the square at the Gate of Ephraim.

The last time the feast had been celebrated was in the days of Joshua the son of Nun.

The people gathered together to listen to the book of the law.

The people of Israel were fasting, wearing sackcloth, and putting dust on their heads. The Israelites separated themselves from all the foreigners, and they stood and confessed their own sins and the sins of their ancestors.

The people said he alone was Yahweh. The people said that Yahweh had made the heavens, the heavens of the heavens, the earth, the seas, and all that was in them. The people said that Yahweh gave life to everything.

The people said that Yahweh had chosen Abram, changed his name to Abraham, found his heart faithful, and made the covenant with him to give his descendants the land.

The people told how Yahweh brought their forefathers out of Egypt, showed signs and wonders against Pharaoh and his people, and saved their forefathers at the Red Sea.

Yahweh parted the sea so they could pass through on dry ground, and then he brought the sea back onto those that were pursuing them.

Yahweh led them by a pillar of cloud during the day and a pillar of fire during the night. Also, Yahweh gave them his ten commandments at Mount Sinai.

Yahweh made his holy Sabbath known to them, gave them bread from heaven, water from a rock, and told them to possess the land he had promised them.

The Israelites were disrespectful and stubborn. They refused to listen, rebelled, and appointed a leader to return them to their slavery.

God did not abandon the Israelites because he is a God who is full of forgiveness, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, and abounding in covenant faithfulness.

Yahweh gave his good Spirit to instruct them. Yahweh gave them food and water; also, their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.

Yahweh gave his Spirit to instruct them. He provided food and water; their clothes did not wear out, and their feet did not swell.

The people said that Yahweh multiplied their families, told them to go in and possess the land he had promised them, and subdued the Canaanites.

The Israelites took the land. They ate and were satisfied and grew fat. They reveled in God’s great goodness.

Yahweh handed them over to their enemies, who made them suffer.

God rescued them from their enemies many times.

The rich yield of the land went to their kings because of the Israelite’s sins.

The Israelites were in great distress because their kings ruled over their bodies and their livestock as the kings pleased.

The Israelites made a firm covenant in writing with Yahweh.

The names of the Israelites’ leader, Levites, and priests were written on the sealed covenant.

Those that pledged themselves were the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the Nethinim, and all the others who bound themselves to God’s law.

They promised not to give their daughters to or let their sons take daughters from the people from whom they had separated. They promised not to buy any goods on the Sabbath, or any holy day. They promised they would let their fields rest every seventh year.

They would give money, bread, grain, and provide for all the offerings and feasts each year for the service of the house of God.

This would select which family would bring the wood into the house of God at selected times each year.

They promised to bring the firstfruits of the harvests as well as the firstborn of their sons and their livestock.

They promised to bring the firstfruits of their harvests and the firstborn of their sons and their livestock.

A priest who was a descendant of Aaron had to be with the Levites.

They brought the contributions to the storerooms where the articles of the sanctuary were kept.

The leaders of the people lived in Jerusalem, and the rest of the people cast lots to see which one person out of ten people would live there.

They were living in all the towns of Judah, on their own inherited property.

They were recorded in the Book of the Events of Days until the days of Johanan.

The people brought the Levites to Jerusalem to perform the dedication ceremony.

The priests and Levites purified themselves, and then purified the people, the gates, and the wall.

The leaders went up to the top of the wall.

The two large choirs were supposed to give thanks.

One choir went to the right on the wall toward the Dung Gate.

The singers sang with Jezrahiah as overseer.

They offered great sacrifices that day, and rejoiced, because God had made them rejoice with great rejoicing.

The men who were appointed to be in charge of the storerooms were assigned to work the fields near the towns.

In the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah, all Israel gave the daily portions for the singers and the gatekeepers.

An Ammonite and a Moabite should not come into the assembly of God forever because they had not come to the people of Israel with bread and water, but had hired Balaam to curse Israel.

Eliashib prepared for Tobiah a large storeroom.

In the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes, Nehemiah returned from Jerusalem to the king.

Nehemiah threw all the household articles of Tobiah out of the storeroom because Nehemiah thought it was very wrong for Tobiah to be staying there.

Because the people were no longer faithfully supporting God’s work by giving portions to the Levites, and therefore the Levites left the temple as did the singers.

Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, Pedaiah, and Hanan were counted as trustworthy.

People in Judah were treading winepresses on the Sabbath.

Men from Tyre brought in fish and all kinds of goods, and they sold them on the Sabbath to the people of Judah and in the city.

As soon as it became dark at the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, Nehemiah commanded that the doors be shut and that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. He stationed some of his servants at the gates so no load could be brought in on the Sabbath day.

The Levites came and guarded the gates to sanctify the Sabbath day.

Half the children spoke the language of Ashdod, and they could not speak the language of Judah, but only the language of one of the other peoples.

Nehemiah confronted them, and he cursed them, and he hit some of them and pulled out their hair.

Nehemiah wanted God to remember him for good.