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highlighted Nehemiah 9:2 ESV
And the Israelites separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.
Dec 3
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highlighted Nehemiah 6:14 ESV
Remember Tobiah and Sanballat, O my God, according to these things that they did, and also the prophetess Noadiah and the rest of the prophets who wanted to make me afraid.
Dec 2
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highlighted Nehemiah 6:8 ESV
Then I sent to him, saying, "No such things as you say have been done, for you are inventing them out of your own mind."
Dec 2
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highlighted Nehemiah 4:15 ESV
When our enemies heard that it was known to us and that God had frustrated their plan, we all returned to the wall, each to his work.
Dec 2
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highlighted Nehemiah 2:18 ESV
And I told them of the hand of my God that had been upon me for good, and also of the words that the king had spoken to me. And they said, "Let us rise up and build." So they strengthened their hands for the good work.
Dec 2
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highlighted Ezra 10:3 ESV
Therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all these wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God, and let it be done according to the Law.
Dec 1
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highlighted Ezra 10:2 ESV
And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, addressed Ezra: "We have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land, but even now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.
Dec 1
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highlighted Ezra 10:1 ESV
While Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children, gathered to him out of Israel, for the people wept bitterly.
Dec 1
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highlighted Ezra 9:15 ESV
O Lord, the God of Israel, you are just, for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our guilt, for none can stand before you because of this."
Dec 1
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highlighted Ezra 9:9 ESV
For we are slaves. Yet our God has not forsaken us in our slavery, but has extended to us his steadfast love before the kings of Persia, to grant us some reviving to set up the house of our God, to repair its ruins, and to give us protection in Judea and Jerusalem.
Dec 1
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highlighted Ezra 9:8 ESV
But now for a brief moment favor has been shown by the Lord our God, to leave us a remnant and to give us a secure hold within his holy place, that our God may brighten our eyes and grant us a little reviving in our slavery.
Dec 1
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highlighted Ezra 9:7 ESV
From the days of our fathers to this day we have been in great guilt. And for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests have been given into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plundering, and to utter shame, as it is today.
Dec 1
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highlighted Ezra 9:6 ESV
saying: "O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift my face to you, my God, for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has mounted up to the heavens.
Dec 1
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highlighted Ezra 9:5 ESV
And at the evening sacrifice I rose from my fasting, with my garment and my cloak torn, and fell upon my knees and spread out my hands to the Lord my God,
Dec 1
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highlighted Ezra 8:31 ESV
Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambushes by the way.
Dec 1
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highlighted Ezra 8:18 ESV
And by the good hand of our God on us, they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of Mahli the son of Levi, son of Israel, namely Sherebiah with his sons and kinsmen, 18;
Dec 1
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highlighted Ezra 7:27 ESV
Blessed be the Lord, the God of our fathers, who put such a thing as this into the heart of the king, to beautify the house of the Lord that is in Jerusalem,
Dec 1
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highlighted Ezra 7:14 ESV
For you are sent by the king and his seven counselors to make inquiries about Judah and Jerusalem according to the Law of your God, which is in your hand,
Dec 1
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highlighted Ezra 7:13 ESV
I make a decree that anyone of the people of Israel or their priests or Levites in my kingdom, who freely offers to go to Jerusalem, may go with you.
Dec 1
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highlighted Ezra 7:12 ESV
"Artaxerxes, king of kings, to Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Law of the God of heaven. Peace. And now
Dec 1