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    Nehemiah · 11 verses

    Nehemiah 1

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    Nehemiah addresses the God of heaven, confesses the sins of Israel, and then asks for mercy before “this man”—a request followed by the wonderfully practical note that he is the king’s cupbearer.

    News from Jerusalemvv. 1–4

    Nehemiah is in the citadel of Susa when Hanani arrives with men from Judah. The questions are about the survivors of the exile and about Jerusalem; the answer is bleakly concise: trouble, disgrace, a broken wall, and gates burned with fire. Nehemiah sits down, weeps, mourns for days, fasts, and prays before the God of heaven.

    A prayer, and then the kingvv. 5–11

    Nehemiah's prayer ranges over covenant, commandments, scattering, gathering, redemption, and the servants who revere God's name. He confesses that Israel has behaved corruptly, including himself and his father's house. Then the horizon narrows wonderfully: success this day, mercy in the sight of “this man.” The final parenthesis supplies the man's identity and Nehemiah's occupation: the king's cupbearer.

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    1. Neh 1:1These are the words of Nehemiah son of Hacaliah: In the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, while I was in the citadel of Susa,

    2. Neh 1:2Hanani, one of my brothers, arrived with men from Judah. So I questioned them about the remnant of the Jews who had survived the exile, and also about Jerusalem.

    3. Neh 1:3And they told me, “The remnant who survived the exile are there in the province, in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burned with fire.”

    4. Neh 1:4When I heard these words, I sat down and wept. I mourned for days, fasting and praying before the God of heaven.

    5. Neh 1:5Then I said: “O LORD, God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion with those who love Him and keep His commandments,

    6. Neh 1:6let Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to hear the prayer that I, Your servant, now pray before You day and night for Your servants, the Israelites. I confess the sins that we Israelites have committed against You. Both I and my father’s house have sinned.

    7. Neh 1:7We have behaved corruptly against You and have not kept the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that You gave Your servant Moses.

    8. Neh 1:8Remember, I pray, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses when You said, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations,

    9. Neh 1:9but if you return to Me and keep and practice My commandments, then even if your exiles have been banished to the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for My Name.’

    10. Neh 1:10They are Your servants and Your people. You redeemed them by Your great power and mighty hand.

    11. Neh 1:11O Lord, may Your ear be attentive to my prayer and to the prayers of Your servants who delight to revere Your name. Give Your servant success this day, I pray, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” (At that time I was the cupbearer to the king.)

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    • 5Exodus 20:6but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.
    • 8Deuteronomy 28:64Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.
    • 11Nehemiah 1:6let Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to hear the prayer that I, Your servant, now pray before You day and night for Your servants, the Israelites. I confess the sins that we Israelites have committed against You. Both I and my father’s house have sinned.
    • 5Daniel 9:4–19And I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed, “O, Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant of loving devotion to those who love Him and keep His commandments,
    • 6Daniel 9:20While I was speaking, praying, confessing my sin and that of my people Israel, and presenting my petition before the LORD my God concerning His holy mountain—
    • 9Jeremiah 29:11–14For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.
    • 7Daniel 9:5–6we have sinned and done wrong. We have acted wickedly and rebelled. We have turned away from Your commandments and ordinances.
    • 8Deuteronomy 4:25–27After you have children and grandchildren and you have been in the land a long time, if you then act corruptly and make an idol of any form—doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God and provoking Him to anger—
    • 9Deuteronomy 30:2–5and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey His voice with all your heart and all your soul according to everything I am giving you today,
    • 4Daniel 9:3So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
    • 8Leviticus 26:33–46But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.
    • 6Psalms 34:15The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their cry.
    • 11Nehemiah 2:8And may I have a letter to Asaph, keeper of the king’s forest, so that he will give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel to the temple, for the city wall, and for the house I will occupy.” And because the gracious hand of my God was upon me, the king granted my requests.
    • 6Psalms 106:6We have sinned like our fathers; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.
    • 11Proverbs 21:1The king’s heart is a waterway in the hand of the LORD; He directs it where He pleases.
    • 11Nehemiah 2:1Now in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was set before him, I took the wine and gave it to the king. I had never been sad in his presence,

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