CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The King's question (Nehemiah 2:1)_ 2. The King's permission (Nehemiah 2:3) 3. The arrival in Jerusalem and the night-ride (Nehemiah 2:9) 4. The resolution to build the wall ...
NEHEMIAH ARRIVES IN JERUSALEM AND SURVEYS THE WALLS. Nehemiah 2:9. The account of the journey is omitted, interest being centred upon what Nehemiah was going to do in Jerusalem. THE GOVERNORS BEYOND T...
THE DISTRESS. How so, if the Temple was already built?...
Nehemiah's appeal. It is implied that Nehemiah having satisfied himself as to the practicability of his plan called an assembly of those mentioned in the previous verse. How soon after his nocturnal r...
Nehemiah 2:11 to Nehemiah 7:5. The Commission performed Nehemiah 2:11-20. The Work undertaken The incidents of this passage may be grouped as follows: (_a_) 11. Nehemiah's arrival: (_b_) 12
_b_ 73 _a_. The Register of those who returned with Zerubbabel = Ezra 2:1-70 _a register of the genealogy_ R.V. THE BOOK. _of them which came up at the first_ The only natural explanation of these wo...
2. On his arrival, he secretly inspects the city's walls. TEXT, NEHEMIAH 2:11-20 11 So I came to Jerusalem and was there three days. 12 And I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. I did no...
_THEN SAID I UNTO THEM, YE SEE THE DISTRESS THAT WE ARE IN, HOW JERUSALEM LIETH WASTE, AND THE GATES THEREOF ARE BURNED WITH FIRE: COME, AND LET US BUILD UP THE WALL OF JERUSALEM, THAT WE BE NO MORE A...
NEHEMIAH'S RESOLVE TO REBUILD JERUSALEM This chapter gives an account of Nehemiah's request for leave to rebuild Jerusalem, his arrival there, and his survey of the ruined walls, which it was decided...
THE *JEWS BUILD JERUSALEM’S CITY WALL AGAIN NEHEMIAH _ROBERT BRYCE AND ROBERT BETTS_ CHAPTER 2 V1 It was the month called Nisan in the 20th year of King Artaxerxes’ rule. I was serving the king w...
Then Nehemiah told the people in the city about his plan. First, he reminded them of the sad truth. Their city was a *ruin. And they could not be a strong nation while Jerusalem was in such a bad stat...
(12-18) Nehemiah’s cautious preliminaries....
THEN. — There is no note of time. When his plans were matured, Nehemiah made an earnest appeal to their patriotism....
וָ אֹומַ֣ר אֲלֵהֶ֗ם אַתֶּ֤ם רֹאִים֙ הָ רָעָה֙
THE MIDNIGHT RIDE Nehemiah 2:9 NEHEMIAH'S journey up to Jerusalem differed in many respects from Ezra's great expedition, with a host of emigrants, rich stores, and all the accompaniments of a large...
BRAVING RIDICULE AND TREACHERY Nehemiah 2:12; Nehemiah 4:1 _ Suspicion_, Nehemiah 2:12. Sanballat was probably a Moabite, a native of Horonaim; Tobiah had been a slave. There are many descendants of...
Nehemiah's sadness could not wholly be hidden. He had not been habitually a sad man, as he himself declares; but the sorrow of his nation manifested itself as he stood before the king. It has been sug...
Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we [are] in, how Jerusalem [lieth] waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no mor...
(11) So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days. (12) And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither was...
Facing the Challenge I. INTRODUCTION A. As we have said before, when faced with building or re-building the spiritual walls in our life, our home or our neighborhood, we have 2 choices: 1. We can i...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 2, 3, 4, 5, AND 6. The time in which Nehemiah laboured for the good of his people was not one of those brilliant phases which, if faith be there, awaken even...
Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we [are] in, how Jerusalem [lieth] waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no mor...
_That we be no more a reproach_ Exposed to the scorn and insults of the people around about. _I told them of the hand of my God,_ &c. That is, he informed them how favourable God had made the king to...
1 Artaxerxes vnderstanding the cause of Nehemiahs sadnesse, sendeth him with letters and commission to Ierusalem. 9 Nehemiah, to the griefe of the enemies, commeth to Ierusalem. 12 Hee vieweth secre...
Then said I unto them, in a meeting called for that purpose, in which Nehemiah produced his credentials and addressed them in an inspiring manner, YE SEE THE DISTRESS THAT WE ARE IN, the evil that had...
NEHEMIAH ARRIVES AT JERUSALEM...
This exercise of Nehemiah continued for four months following the information he received, and finally came to a head in the month Nisan (corresponding to March or April), when Nehemiah was serving wi...
9-18 When Nehemiah had considered the matter, he told the Jews that God had put it into his heart to build the wall of Jerusalem. He does not undertake to do it without them. By stirring up ourselves...
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Nehemiah 2:17 said H559 (H8799) see H7200 (H8802) distress H7451 Jerusalem H3389 waste H2720 gates H8179 burned...
NEHEMIAH SECRETLY INSPECTS THE WALLS OF JERUSALEM AND THE DECISION IS MADE TO REBUILD THEM (NEHEMIAH 2:11). Having arrived safely in Jerusalem Nehemiah rested, prior to a secret surveillance of the co...
Nehemiah 2:17 Jerusalem for us is the Church. "The wall of Jerusalem is thrown down," the fugitives said to Nehemiah. Is not this the message which many voices bring us today from all quarters of Chr...
CONTENTS: Nehemiah's visit to Jerusalem by permission of Artaxerxes. CHARACTERS: God, Artaxerxes, Nehemiah, Sanballat, Tobiah, Asaph, Geshem. CONCLUSION: The Christian should be concerned in the sor...
Nehemiah 2:1. _Nisan._ See the chronology, Exodus 12. Artaxerxes was well disposed towards the Jews. He had sent Ezra to Jerusalem in the seventh year of his reign; he now sends Nehemiah in the twenti...
_And I arose in the night._ NEHEMIAH, THE MODEL WORKER I. He works thoughtfully. Before he commences this tremendous task he spends some time in deliberation. Who can tell the thoughts of Nehemiah as...
_Then I came to the governors beyond the river._ THE INITIAL STAGES OF A GREAT REFORMATION Great reformations often have an insignificant commencement and are slow in developing their true proportio...
EXPLANATORY NOTES.] NEHEMIAH 2:1. NISAN] Called Abib in Exodus 13:4, first month in Hebrew national year. Corresponds to parts of our March and April. NEHEMIAH 2:3. LET THE KING LIVE FOR EVER] (Heb....
EXPOSITION NEHEMIAH'S JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM (Nehemiah 3:9). On his way to Jerusalem, Nehemiah would pass through the provinces of various Persian satraps and governors. To those beyond the Euphrates he...
"You've never been sad in my presence before, what's wrong with you?" And so Nehemiah opened up his heart. Actually, the king had asked him a question and the king discerned. He said, "It's obviously...
1 Samuel 11:2; Ezekiel 22:4; Ezekiel 22:5; Ezekiel 5:14; Ezra 10:2;...
REBUILDING THE WALL Nehemiah 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS As we study the Book of Nehemiah we learn the truth of that old saying, "God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform." This was true in...