Nehemiah 1:9
1:9 But if you repent
and obey
my commandments and do them, then even if your dispersed people are in the most remote location,
I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen for my name to reside.’
Nehemiah 1:11
1:11 Please,
O Lord, listen attentively
to the prayer of your servant and to the prayer of your servants who take pleasure in showing respect
to your name. Grant your servant success today and show compassion to me
in the presence of this man.”
Now I was cupbearer for the king.
Nehemiah 2:7-8
2:7 I said to the king, “If the king is so inclined, let him give me letters for the governors of Trans-Euphrates
that will enable me to travel safely until I reach Judah,
2:8 and a letter for Asaph the keeper of the king’s nature preserve,
so that he will give me timber for beams for the gates of the fortress adjacent to the temple and for the city wall
and for the house to which I go.” So the king granted me these requests,
for the good hand of my God was on me.
Nehemiah 2:12
2:12 I got up during the night, along with a few men who were with me. But I did not tell anyone what my God was putting on my heart to do for Jerusalem. There were no animals with me, except for the one
I was riding.
Nehemiah 4:19
4:19 I said to the nobles, the officials, and the rest of the people, “The work is demanding and extensive, and we are spread out on the wall, far removed from one another.
Nehemiah 7:5
7:5 My God placed it on my heart to gather the leaders,
the officials, and the ordinary people so they could be enrolled on the basis of genealogy. I found the genealogical records
of those who had formerly returned. Here is what I found written in that record:
Nehemiah 8:1
8:1 all the people gathered together
in the plaza which was in front of the Water Gate. They asked
Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses which the
LORD had commanded Israel.
Nehemiah 8:3
8:3 So he read it before the plaza in front of the Water Gate from dawn till noon
before the men and women and those children who could understand.
All the people were eager to hear
the book of the law.
Nehemiah 8:9
8:9 Then Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priestly scribe, and the Levites who were imparting understanding to the people said to all of them, “This day is holy to the LORD your God. Do not mourn or weep.” For all the people had been weeping when they heard the words of the law.
Nehemiah 9:29
9:29 And you solemnly admonished them in order to return them to your law, but they behaved presumptuously and did not obey your commandments. They sinned against your ordinances – those by which an individual, if he obeys them,
will live. They boldly turned from you;
they rebelled
and did not obey.
Nehemiah 9:32
9:32 “So now, our God – the great, powerful, and awesome God, who keeps covenant fidelity – do not regard as inconsequential all the hardship that has befallen us – our kings, our leaders, our priests, our prophets, our ancestors, and all your people – from the days of the kings of Assyria until this very day!
Nehemiah 10:28
10:28 “Now the rest of the people – the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple attendants, and all those who have separated themselves from the neighboring peoples because of the law of God, along with their wives, their sons, and their daughters, all of whom are able to understand –
Nehemiah 10:37-39
10:37 We will also bring the first of our coarse meal, of our contributions, of the fruit of every tree, of new wine, and of olive oil to the priests at the storerooms of the temple of our God, along with a tenth of the produce
of our land to the Levites, for the Levites are the ones who collect the tithes in all the cities where we work.
10:38 A priest of Aaron’s line
will be with the Levites when the Levites collect the tithes, and the Levites will bring up a tenth of the tithes to the temple of our God, to the storerooms of the treasury.
10:39 The Israelites and the Levites will bring the contribution of the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil to the storerooms where the utensils of the sanctuary are kept, and where the priests who minister stay, along with the gatekeepers and the singers. We will not neglect the temple of our God.”
Nehemiah 13:6
13:6 During all this time I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes of Babylon, I had gone back to the king. After some time I had requested leave of the king,