The rebuilt wall has just been dedicated. Now men are appointed to gather the Lord’s portion. The people are faithful to follow the Lord’s command. Something in our reading surprised me. It is near the end where we are told, “And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah gave […]
We are back to looking at the wall of Jerusalem. It is time to dedicate it to the Lord. It happens with people on the wall praising Him. I don’t know when exactly this happened. It could have happened after the month of celebration or it could have happened soon after the wall was finished. […]
I’m so sorry but I need to take a sick day. I have been powering through by having all day to gather my thoughts. Today my day was taken up with waiting for medical treatments. I don’t have the strength and my head is full of cotton. I can’t think straight so I’m taking a […]
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 […]
