So the people had the special holiday of the shelters in the 7th month of the year. It lasted from the 15th day of the month until the 22nd day (Nehemiah 8:14-18). It was a happy holiday. Two days later, they gathered together again. This time they were sad. They did not eat any food. The people al... [ Continue Reading ]
THE *JEWS BUILD JERUSALEM’S CITY WALL AGAIN NEHEMIAH _ROBERT BRYCE AND ROBERT BETTS_ CHAPTER 9 Nehemiah still had not finished his work for God. He could have returned to Persia. He had a successful career there. But he remained in *Judah for 12 years. He wanted to make the *Jews into a holy na... [ Continue Reading ]
Some *Levites led the people to pray to God. Other *Levites led the people to *worship and to praise God. They remembered that God has always lived. He was not born and he will not die. He made everything. He is the real God. He is not like the false gods that the foreigners served. They were not r... [ Continue Reading ]
In their prayers to God, the people remembered all the things that he had done for them and for their *ancestors. The people remembered that God had chosen Abram. God had given him a new name, Abraham, and a new place to live. God had promised that Abraham would have many *descendants. God promised... [ Continue Reading ]
In their prayers to God, the people remembered that their *ancestors had lived in the country called Egypt. The king of Egypt and his people had made the *Jews suffer. So the *Jews called to God to help them. God heard their cries and he rescued them from the people of Egypt. The king of Egypt did n... [ Continue Reading ]
While they were in the desert, God called Moses up to Sinai Mountain. On Sinai Mountain, God gave Moses good and fair laws for his people. God told the people to rest on the 7th day of the week. That was a special holy day for God. Then the people knew how to obey God. They knew how God wanted them... [ Continue Reading ]
Although God looked after his people, they did not obey his law. He gave them food and water in the desert. But they did not remember all the good and wonderful things that God had done for them. Although God led them with the cloud and the fire, they asked Aaron, Moses’ brother, to make them anothe... [ Continue Reading ]
The *Jews wandered in the desert for 40 years. During this time, almost all the adults who left Egypt died. Although the people often did not obey God, God was still looking after their families. He led them into the country that he had promised to give to them. And he made them into a great nation.... [ Continue Reading ]
God was good to his people the *Jews. He looked after them and he gave them a good country to live in. But they did not obey him. God sent *prophets to warn them, but they killed the *prophets. So God punished the people. He allowed their enemies to defeat them. Then the people called out to God for... [ Continue Reading ]
So the people in Nehemiah’s time remembered their history. They remembered that God had been kind to their *ancestors. So they praised God. God always does everything that he has promised to do. They realised this fact. So they thanked God. And they asked God to help them in their present troubles.... [ Continue Reading ]
So the people decided to make promises to God. They wrote down their agreement with God and their leaders signed it. Then everybody would know what they had promised to do. We can read about this agreement in the next chapter. JEWS ~ all the people from the family of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Or, j... [ Continue Reading ]