The people had built the walls of Jerusalem and they had put the doors in place. So the inhabitants of Jerusalem had security at last. But Nehemiah had not finished his work. For 52 days, the people had been anxious about the work on the walls. They had to protect themselves while they built the wal... [ Continue Reading ]
THE *JEWS BUILD JERUSALEM’S CITY WALL AGAIN NEHEMIAH _ROBERT BRYCE AND ROBERT BETTS_ CHAPTER 7 V1 So we had finished the construction of the wall. And I had put the doors in place. We had appointed guards for the gates. We had also appointed singers and *Levites for their work. V2 Then I appoin... [ Continue Reading ]
Although the people had built the walls, they had not repaired many of the houses. So not many people lived in the city, although it was a big city. Nehemiah knew that a city could not be successful without inhabitants. Nehemiah had to ask people to come and live in the city. This was a harder job... [ Continue Reading ]
It seems that Nehemiah prayed about this problem. And God showed him what to do. Nehemiah recorded all the people in a list of their families. Then he found the list of the first people who returned from *exile. Nehemiah could remind the people about their brave *ancestors who returned from *exile.... [ Continue Reading ]
Nehemiah copied the register of the people who returned from *exile in Babylonia. These people came back to *Judah about 90 years before the time of Nehemiah. Zerubbabel and Jeshua led this group of people. Jeshua was the chief priest. The people went back to the towns that God had given to their *a... [ Continue Reading ]
The people who returned to *Judah had different jobs to do. Some were priests and *Levites and some were singers. They led the people when they *worshipped God. Some of the people guarded the *temple and the gates and some were servants in the *temple. V61 These are the people from the towns of Tel... [ Continue Reading ]
Some of the people could not prove who their *ancestors were. Some of these people were priests. God appointed the *descendants of Aaron (who was the brother of Moses) to be priests. So the priests had to prove that they were *descendants of Aaron. Otherwise, they could not serve as priests. God ga... [ Continue Reading ]
The *Babylonians had destroyed the *temple when they took the *Jews into *exile. When the people had returned to *Judah at the time of Zerubbabel, they started to build the *temple. They started the work on the *temple as soon as they could. Some of the people had become rich when they lived in Ba... [ Continue Reading ]
In the past, God had promised to give the country called *Judah to the *Jews. God gave some land to each family (Numbers 34:13-15). When the *Jews returned from *exile, they lived in their own towns. These were the same towns that God had given to their *ancestors. This register calls the people ‘t... [ Continue Reading ]