Nehemiah goes back to the beginning of the returning exiles and does a roll call for the leading priests and Levites. This record is to keep things in order. When we read the list of returnees in Ezra 2 and again Nehemiah 7, we are told that some of the priests who came back from […]
Jerusalem was not the only town the people of Judah took back. We see a list of other towns that those who returned from captivity lived in. The number of Jews who returned from captivity was FAR less than those who went in. But those who returned reclaimed their ancestral land; their individual inheritance. When […]
Jerusalem used to be the dwelling place of kings but it had few dwellings when the wall was down. Now Nehemiah intends to populate the town again. We can’t say there was no one living in the town before the wall was repaired but it was nothing compared to what it had been. In the […]
We see the contents of the oath the people all entered into. Not all could sign it, as there wasn’t that much room, but ALL agreed to it. The document signed and sworn to covers the basics for the people. Three main points are covered. One is in more depth than the other two. The […]
The list of signers is LONG. Those who have consented to follow the Lord’s commandments. They put their names on the seals. When I think of someone signing something I don’t picture it being on the outside of it. At least that is where I think of seals as being on a document. It could […]
