Nehemiah

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1. Nehemiah's Prayer for the Exiles
1. Nehemiah, understanding by Hanani the misery of Jerusalem, mourns, fasts, and prays
5. His prayer
2. Artaxerxes Sends Nehemiah to Jerusalem to Inspect Jerusalem's Walls
1. Artaxerxes, understanding the cause of Nehemiah's sadness,
6. sends him with letters and commission to Jerusalem
9. Nehemiah, to the grief of the enemies, comes to Jerusalem
12. He views secretly the ruins of the walls
17. He incites the Jews to build
3. Builders of the Walls Named
1. The names and order of those who built the wall
4. Work on Walls Is Ridiculed; Opposition Overcome
1. While the enemies scoff, Nehemiah prays and continues the work
7. Understanding the wrath and secrets of the enemy, he sets a watch
13. He arms the laborers
19. and gives military precepts
5. Nehemiah Abolishes Debt, Mortgage, and Bondage
1. The Jews complain of their debt, mortgage, and bondage
6. Nehemiah rebukes the usurers, and causes them to make a covenant of restitution
14. He forbears his own allowance, and keeps hospitality
6. Sanballat's Plot; Completion of the Wall
1. Sanballat practices by craft, by rumors, and by hired prophecies, to terrify Nehemiah
15. The work is finished, to the terror of the enemies
17. Secret intelligence passes between the enemies and the nobles of Judah
7. Census of Returned Exiles
1. Nehemiah commits the charge of Jerusalem to Hanani and Hananiah
5. A register of the genealogy of them which came at the first out of Babylon
9. of the people
39. of the priests
43. of the Levites
46. of the Nethinims
57. of Solomon's servants
63. and of the priests which could not find their pedigree
66. The whole number of them, with their substance
70. Their offerings
8. Ezra Reads the Law, Restores the Feast of Tabernacles
1. The reverent manner of reading and hearing the law
9. They comfort the people
13. The eagerness of the people to hear and be instructed
16. They keep the feast of tabernacles
9. The Israelites Confess Their Sin, Covenant Results
1. A solemn fast, and repentance of the people
4. The Levites make a confession of God's goodness, and their wickedness
10. Signers and Obligations of the Covenant
1. The names of those who sealed the covenant.
29. The points of the covenant.
11. New Residents of Jerusalem and Judah
1. The rulers, voluntary men, and the tenth man chosen by lot, dwell at Jerusalem.
3. A catalogue of their names.
20. Those who remain dwell in other cities.
12. Priests and Levites Who Returned; Dedication of the Wall
1. The priests and the Levites which came up with Zerubbabel.
10. The succession of high priests.
22. Certain chief Levites.
27. The solemnity of the dedication of the walls.
44. The offices of priests and Levites appointed in the temple.
13. Foreigners Excluded; Tobiah Expelled; Tithes and Sabbath Restored
1. Upon the reading of the law, separation is made from the mixed multitude.
4. Nehemiah, at his return, causes the chambers to be cleansed.
10. He reforms the offices in the house of God;
15. the violation of the Sabbath;
23. and the marriages with the strange wives.

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