Barbara Hayes
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Barbara Hayes
highlighted Nehemiah 2:7 ESV
And I said to the king, "If it pleases the king, let letters be given me to the governors of the province Beyond the River, that they may let me pass through until I come to Judah,
May 8
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Nehemiah 2:6 ESV
And the king said to me (the queen sitting beside him), "How long will you be gone, and when will you return?" So it pleased the king to send me when I had given him a time.
May 8
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Nehemiah 2:5 ESV
And I said to the king, "If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers' graves, that I may rebuild it."
May 8
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Nehemiah 2:3 ESV
I said to the king, "Let the king live forever! Why should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' graves, lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?"
May 8
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Nehemiah 2:2 ESV
And the king said to me, "Why is your face sad, seeing you are not sick? This is nothing but sadness of the heart." Then I was very much afraid.
May 8
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Nehemiah 1:8 ESV
Remember the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, 'If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples,
May 8
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Nehemiah 1:7 ESV
We have acted very corruptly against you and have not kept the commandments, the statutes, and the rules that you commanded your servant Moses.
May 8
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Nehemiah 1:6 ESV
let your ear be attentive and your eyes open, to hear the prayer of your servant that I now pray before you day and night for the people of Israel your servants, confessing the sins of the people of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Even I and my father's house have sinned.
May 8
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Nehemiah 1:5 ESV
And I said, "O Lord God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments,
May 8
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Nehemiah 1:2 ESV
that Hanani, one of my brothers, came with certain men from Judah. And I asked them concerning the Jews who escaped, who had survived the exile, and concerning Jerusalem.
May 8
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Ezra 10:10 ESV
And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, "You have broken faith and married foreign women, and so increased the guilt of Israel.
May 7
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Ezra 10:6 ESV
Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and went to the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib, where he spent the night, neither eating bread nor drinking water, for he was mourning over the faithlessness of the exiles.
May 7
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Ezra 10:5 ESV
Then Ezra arose and made the leading priests and Levites and all Israel take an oath that they would do as had been said. So they took the oath.
May 7
Barbara Hayes
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.
May 7
Barbara Hayes
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.
May 7
Barbara Hayes
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.
May 7
Barbara Hayes
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.
May 7
Barbara Hayes
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.
May 7
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Ezra 9:3 ESV
As soon as I heard this, I tore my garment and my cloak and pulled hair from my head and beard and sat appalled.
May 7
Barbara Hayes
highlighted Ezra 9:1 ESV
After these things had been done, the officials approached me and said, "The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands with their abominations, from the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
May 7