Nehemiah
History
World English Bible (WEB)
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Nehemiah 1
The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah. Now it happened in the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace,
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Nehemiah 2
It happened in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, that I took up the wine, and gave it to the king. Now I had not been before sad in his presence.
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Nehemiah 3
Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up its doors; even to the tower of Hammeah they sanctified it, to the tower of Hananel.
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Nehemiah 4
But it happened that when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.
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Nehemiah 5
Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.
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Nehemiah 6
Now it happened, when it was reported to Sanballat and Tobiah, and to Geshem the Arabian, and to the rest of our enemies, that I had built the wall, and that there was no breach left therein; (though even to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates;)
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Nehemiah 7
Now it happened, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed,
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Nehemiah 8
All the people gathered themselves together as one man into the broad place that was before the water gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Yahweh had commanded to Israel.
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Nehemiah 9
Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackcloth, and earth on them.
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Nehemiah 10
Now those who sealed were: Nehemiah the governor, the son of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah,
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Nehemiah 11
The princes of the people lived in Jerusalem: the rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts in the other cities.
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Nehemiah 12
Now these are the priests and the Levites who went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,
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Nehemiah 13
On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that an Ammonite and a Moabite should not enter into the assembly of God forever,