1 Nehemiah, understanding by Hanani the misery of Jerusalem, mourns, fasts, and prays.
5 His prayer.
1 Artaxerxes, understanding the cause of Nehemiah's sadness, 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.
1 The names and order of them that built the wall.
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 labourers;
19 and gives military precepts.
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.
1 Sanballat practises by craft, by rumours, 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.
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 oblations.
1 The religious manner of reading and hearing the law.
9 They comfort the people.
13 The forwardness of them to hear and be instructed.
16 They keep the feast of tabernacles.
1 A solemn fast, and repentance of the people.
4 The Levites make a religious confession of God's goodness, and their wickedness.
1 The names of them that sealed the covenant.
29 The points of the covenant.
1 The rulers, voluntary men, and the tenth man chosen by lot, dwell at Jerusalem.
3 A catalogue of their names.
20 The residue dwell in other cities.
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. We have in this chapter a record of little more than the names of a great many priests and Levites, that were eminent in their day among the returned Jews. It is good to know what our godly ance
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.
