The people have heard the Law read by Ezra but that one dose is NOT enough. They come back to him and say, “More please.” And they listen for days! I don’t know that this has happened at all before. The people actually coming and asking to hear more of God’s words. When Ezra first […]
The people have heard the words of God as Ezra read from the Law. Their hearts were pierced and they wept. “Don’t weep for this is a holy day to the Lord.” It is the first day of Tishri. This is the seventh month in the year prescribed by the Torah but the first month […]
Ezra reads the Law of Moses in the presence of the people. The Levites make sure they understand it and they all worship the Lord their God. Here I am a little confused as to the timeline. We just went over the rolls of the people who came out with Zerubbabel and now we are […]
Nehemiah confirmed the count of the people. He includes the full head count then he goes over the gifts that were given. Nehemiah breaks down the origin of the gifts given a little better than Ezra’s telling of it did. But being the fact checker that I am, I come up 20,000 darics of gold […]
Nehemiah goes through the people and updates the genealogy rolls. Some don’t have proof of their heritage and are given provisional status. Oooh, how I LOVE genealogy; NOT. But here we are again. It’s time for the children of God to take stock and be counted again. This time it isn’t to see how much […]
