Barbara Hayes
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Barbara Hayes
highlighted Nehemiah 8:6 ESV
And Ezra blessed the Lord, the great God, and all the people answered, "Amen, Amen," lifting up their hands. And they bowed their heads and worshiped the Lord with their faces to the ground.
May 11
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Nehemiah 8:1 ESV
And all the people gathered as one man into the square before the Water Gate. And they told Ezra the scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses that the Lord had commanded Israel.
May 10
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Nehemiah 7:2 ESV
I gave my brother Hanani and Hananiah the governor of the castle charge over Jerusalem, for he was a more faithful and God-fearing man than many.
May 9
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Nehemiah 6:11 ESV
But I said, "Should such a man as I run away? And what man such as I could go into the temple and live? I will not go in."
May 9
Barbara Hayes
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."
May 9
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Nehemiah 6:7 ESV
And you have also set up prophets to proclaim concerning you in Jerusalem, 'There is a king in Judah.' And now the king will hear of these reports. So now come and let us take counsel together."
May 9
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Nehemiah 6:6 ESV
In it was written, "It is reported among the nations, and Geshem also says it, that you and the Jews intend to rebel; that is why you are building the wall. And according to these reports you wish to become their king.
May 9
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Nehemiah 6:1 ESV
Now when Sanballat and Tobiah and Geshem the Arab and the rest of our enemies heard that I had built the wall and that there was no breach left in it (although up to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates),
May 9
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Nehemiah 5:14 ESV
Moreover, from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year to the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, twelve years, neither I nor my brothers ate the food allowance of the governor.
May 8
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Nehemiah 5:12 ESV
Then they said, "We will restore these and require nothing from them. We will do as you say." And I called the priests and made them swear to do as they had promised.
May 8
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Nehemiah 5:11 ESV
Return to them this very day their fields, their vineyards, their olive orchards, and their houses, and the percentage of money, grain, wine, and oil that you have been exacting from them."
May 8
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Nehemiah 5:8 ESV
and said to them, "We, as far as we are able, have bought back our Jewish brothers who have been sold to the nations, but you even sell your brothers that they may be sold to us!" They were silent and could not find a word to say.
May 8
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Nehemiah 5:1 ESV
Now there arose a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brothers.
May 8
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Nehemiah 4:8 ESV
And they all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and to cause confusion in it.
May 8
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Nehemiah 4:2 ESV
And he said in the presence of his brothers and of the army of Samaria, "What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they restore it for themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish up in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, and burned ones at that?"
May 8
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Nehemiah 4:1 ESV
Now when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry and greatly enraged, and he jeered at the Jews.
May 8
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Nehemiah 3:1 ESV
Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the Sheep Gate. They consecrated it and set its doors. They consecrated it as far as the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Tower of Hananel.
May 8
Barbara Hayes
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.
May 8
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Nehemiah 2:17 ESV
Then I said to them, "You see the trouble we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins with its gates burned. Come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer suffer derision."
May 8
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Nehemiah 2:8 ESV
and a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the fortress of the temple, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall occupy." And the king granted me what I asked, for the good hand of my God was upon me.
May 8