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https://www.pinterest.com/pin/625789310693368768/ Nehemiah views the Jerusalem wall My Mini-Bible Study for 2019 Read the Bible in a Year | Come join us at any time! Using The NRSV Daily Bible Today’s Reading 4/22/2019     Day 112 Nehemiah 11:1 – 13:31 Reflection | Today Chapter 11 - Coming back from the Exile the land was divided up. Census taken; Chapter 12 - Review of priestly and leviticial genealogies; Celebration! Chapter 13 - Nehemiah rectifies the distribution of funds to the clergy; and Sabbath violations; intermarriage problems who brought their local gods; purification of the priesthood. (NOAB5) Background Background by Center of Biblical Studies. Background by Chabad.org | Esra and Nehemiah were artificially divided with the LXX (Latin Septuagint)  and should bread as one book. Detailed listing of the Kings of Israel and Judah. +++ Meditation/Contemplate: God gives all things including power and ru...

Read | Day 265 | Tuesday | September 22 | Nehemiah 12: 27-43, 44– 13: 3  Nehemiah 13: 4-6a  Nehemiah 5: 14-19  Nehemiah 13: 6b-31  Malachi 1: 1, 2-5, 6-14  Malachi 2: 1-9  Background | Malachi |  Malachi, the final book of the Old Testament in the Christian canon, is among the shortest books of the Minor Prophets and among the last to have been written. The name “Malachi” is likely the prophet’s name, though some think it is a title “my messenger,” which is its literal meaning in Hebrew. The book does not give any clear indication as to when Malachi carried out his prophetic ministry. Since Malachi shares some themes with Nehemiah, namely denouncing unfaithfulness to the law, it is likely that Malachi was a contemporary of Nehemiah. In particular, Malachi may have been around during the latter part of Nehemiah’s efforts to establish covenant faithfulness among the returned population from Babylon around 433 BC. More ... Click here Dat...

Read |    Day 264 | Monday | September 21 | Nehemiah 11: 1-36  Nehemiah 12: 1-26  1 Chronicles 9: 2-9, 10-13, 14-34   Date: 445 BC Reading | Nehemiah - leader and volunteers chosen by lot to live in Jerusalem; listing of returning exiles and priests and Levites. Source | Tyndale | The One Year Chronological Bible NIV | ISBN 978-1-4143-5993-9  Next |  Day 265 | Tuesday | September 22 | l ayman.org Nehemiah 12: 27-43, 44– 13: 3  Nehemiah 13: 4-6a  Nehemiah 5: 14-19  Nehemiah 13: 6b-31  Malachi 1: 1, 2-5, 6-14  Malachi 2: 1-9  +++ Read and pray the Daily Office this morning - c lick here Listen and pray the Daily Office this morning - click here Participate and pray the Daily Office at 900 am ET this morning online - click here

Read |    Day 263 | Sunday | September 20 | Nehemiah 8: 13-18  Nehemiah 9: 1-38  Nehemiah 10: 1-29, 30-39  Nehemiah By Russian Icon Painter (Greek and Russian Orthodox Icon) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Date: 445 BC Reading | Nehemiah - Celebration of the Tabernacles, the people confess their sins, You are blessed, O Lord; retelling of the salvation history; an agreement is written and signed by many; vow not to give daughters to foreigners, other promises. Source | Tyndale | The One Year Chronological Bible NIV | ISBN 978-1-4143-5993-9  Next |  Day 264 | Monday | September 21 | Nehemiah 11: 1-36  Nehemiah 12: 1-26  1 Chronicles 9: 2-9, 10-13, 14-34   +++ A Prayer of Self-Dedication Almighty and eternal God, so draw our hearts to you, so guide our minds, so fill our imaginations, so control our wills, that we may be wholly yours, utterly dedicated unto you; and then use us, we pray you, as you will, and ...

Read |    Day 262 | Saturday | September 19   Nehemiah 7: 4-73a, 73b– 8: 12 Nehemiah By Russian Icon Painter (Greek and Russian Orthodox Icon) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Date: 445 BC Reading | Nehemiah, the governor, conducts a census of the people now living in Jerusalem - he says there are 42,360. Ezra the priest and teacher of the Law takes the Law out and reads to the people, they bowed down and worshiped the Lord. Levites helped in this instruction; Nehemiah declares a celebration with joy. Source | Tyndale | The One Year Chronological Bible NIV | ISBN 978-1-4143-5993-9  Next |  Day 263 | Sunday | September 20 | Nehemiah 8: 13-18  Nehemiah 9: 1-38  Nehemiah 10: 1-29, 30-39  +++ A Song of Creation Benedicite, omnia opera Domini Song of the Three Young Men, 35-65 Invocation Glorify the Lord, all you works of the Lord, * praise him and highly exalt him for ever. In the firmament of his power, glorify the Lord,...

Read |    Day 261 | Friday | September 18   Nehemiah 3: 1-32  Nehemiah 4: 1-23  Nehemiah 5: 1-13  Nehemiah 6: 1-14, 15– 7: 3  Nehemiah By Russian Icon Painter (Greek and Russian Orthodox Icon) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Date: 445 BC Reading | Various parts of the wall of Jerusalem are rebuilt by priests and others; gates first = Sheep, Fish, Jeshanah,Valley, Dung, Fountain, Horse; plots from others to kill the workers and stop construction; half built and the other half stood guard; people begin to complain and worry about eating  and mortgaging  their future; Nehemiah defends the oppressed; more people oppose; despite all things the walls were complete in 52 days; Nehemiah posts guards on the gates.  Source | Tyndale | The One Year Chronological Bible NIV | ISBN 978-1-4143-5993-9  Next |    Day 262 | Saturday | September 19   Nehemiah 7: 4-73a, 73b– 8: 12 +++ Collect of the Day: Pentecost...

Read |  Day 260 | Thursday | September 17   Ezra 9: 1-15  Ezra 10: 1-17, 18-44 Nehemiah 1: 1-11  Nehemiah 2: 1-10, 11-20 By Russian Icon Painter (Greek and Russian Orthodox Icon) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Background | Nehemiah |  The book of Nehemiah begins with King Artaxerxes sending Nehemiah to Jerusalem to rebuild its walls. Nehemiah 3 gives a detailed description of the various gates of the walls, which is the earliest such description scholars have, thereby helping them to understand something of the topography of Jerusalem at the time. As with Ezra’s reforms, there was opposition to rebuilding the wall, for a fortified Jerusalem would surely make the surrounding nations nervous. Despite this, the wall was still completed.  Nehemiah also includes a number of lists that are of interest to historians: a list of those who returned from Babylon, of those who agreed to the religious reforms initiated by Ezra reading the Torah in the ...