Nehemiah Devotionals
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- Nehemiah 1: Praying God's Promises Back
Nehemiah is serving in the citadel of Susa when his brother brings news. The survivors in Judah are in great trouble and disgrace, and Jerusalem's wall is broken down and its…
- Nehemiah 2: A Prayer Between Two Sentences
Nehemiah is serving wine to King Artaxerxes when the king notices his sad face (2:1-2). Badly afraid, Nehemiah tells the truth about the ruined city of his fathers. The king asks…
- Nehemiah 3: Every Name on the Wall
Nehemiah 3 circles Jerusalem gate by gate, naming who rebuilt each stretch of wall. The high priest and his fellow priests begin at the Sheep Gate (3:1). A goldsmith and a…
- Nehemiah 4: Prayer and a Posted Guard
As the wall rises, so does the contempt. Sanballat mocks the feeble Jews, and Tobiah jokes that a fox could knock their wall down (4:1-3). He asks God to hear how they are…
- Nehemiah 5: When Brothers Become Creditors
In Nehemiah 5 the outcry rises from God's own people against their fellow Jews. To get grain during famine, families have mortgaged fields and homes, borrowed to pay the king's…
- Nehemiah 6: Finished by Our God
As the wall nears completion, the enemies turn to schemes. Four times they invite Nehemiah to a meeting on the plain of Ono, planning to harm him, and four times he replies that…
- Nehemiah 7: A City Waiting for People
The wall is up and the doors are hung, and Nehemiah sets the city in order. He puts his brother Hanani in charge along with Hananiah, a faithful man who feared God more than most…
- Nehemiah 8: Feasting After the Tears
The people gather as one in the square by the Water Gate and ask Ezra to bring out the Book of the Law (8:1). He reads from daybreak until noon, and all who can understand listen…
- Nehemiah 9: Faithful Through Every Failure
Later that month the people gather in sackcloth to read the Law and confess (9:1-3). The Levites lead a prayer that retells Israel's story, and its main character is God. He alone…
- Nehemiah 10: Signed in View of Mercy
The great prayer of chapter 9 ends with the people resolving, in view of all God has done, to make a binding agreement in writing (9:38). Chapter 10 lists those who sealed it:…
- Nehemiah 11: Moving Into the Holy City
With the wall finished but the city short of residents, the leaders settle in Jerusalem, and the rest of the people cast lots to bring one in ten to live there (11:1). Some…
- Nehemiah 12: Joy Heard from Far Away
Nehemiah 12 begins by listing priests and Levites from the first return onward, through a line of high priests across six generations (12:1-26). The praise and thanksgiving David…
- Nehemiah 13: Mercy After Every Reform
Nehemiah ends with a return visit. While he was away at the king's court, Eliashib the priest had given Tobiah, a longtime opponent, a room in the temple storehouse (13:4-7). The…