Day 261 - Friday after the 16th Sunday after Pentecost
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...