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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 ...