Barbara Hayes

and that they should proclaim it and publish it in all their towns and in Jerusalem, "Go out to the hills and bring branches of olive, wild olive, myrtle, palm, and other leafy trees to make booths, as it is written."

over 10 years ago

Barbara Hayes

highlighted Nehemiah 8:14 ESV

And they found it written in the Law that the Lord had commanded by Moses that the people of Israel should dwell in booths during the feast of the seventh month,

over 10 years ago

Barbara Hayes

highlighted Nehemiah 8:10 ESV

Then he said to them, "Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength."

over 10 years ago

Barbara Hayes

highlighted Nehemiah 8:9 ESV

And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, "This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn or weep." For all the people wept as they heard the words of the Law.

over 10 years ago

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.

over 10 years ago

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.

over 10 years ago

Barbara Hayes

finished reading Nehemiah 6, Nehemiah 7 in Chronological Bible Reading Plan:

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),...

over 10 years ago

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.

over 10 years ago

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."

over 10 years ago

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."

over 10 years ago

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."

over 10 years ago

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.

over 10 years ago

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),

over 10 years ago

Barbara Hayes

finished reading Nehemiah 1, Nehemiah 2, Nehemiah 3, Nehemiah 4, Nehemiah 5 in Chronological Bible Reading Plan:

The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah. Now it happened in the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Susa the citadel,...

over 10 years ago

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.

over 10 years ago

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.

over 10 years ago

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."

over 10 years ago

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.

over 10 years ago

Barbara Hayes

highlighted Nehemiah 5:1 ESV

Now there arose a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brothers.

over 10 years ago

Barbara Hayes

highlighted Nehemiah 4:8 ESV

And they all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and to cause confusion in it.

over 10 years ago

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