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Teaching leadership at Columbia Business School, I came up with a phrase that captures how motivation needs to be personalized: different people have different needs at different times.
Nehemiah rebuilding Jerusalem, illustration by Adolf Hult, 1919. Nehemiah (/ ˌ n iː ə ˈ m aɪ ə /; Hebrew: נְחֶמְיָה Nəḥemyā, "Yah comforts") [2] is the central figure of the Book of Nehemiah, which describes his work in rebuilding Jerusalem during the Second Temple period as the governor of Persian Judea under Artaxerxes I of Persia (465–424 BC).
Building the Wall of Jerusalem. The Book of Nehemiah in the Hebrew Bible, largely takes the form of a first-person memoir by Nehemiah, a Jew who is a high official at the Persian court, concerning the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem after the Babylonian exile and the dedication of the city and its people to God's laws ().
He incited the Ammonites to hinder Nehemiah's efforts to rebuild Jerusalem. [3] [4] He, along with Sanballat the Horonite and Geshem the Arabian, resorted to a stratagem and, pretending to wish a conference with Nehemiah, invited him to meet them at Ono, Benjamin. Four times they made the request, and every time Nehemiah refused to come.
Eliashib (Hebrew: אֶלְיָשִׁיב ’Elyāšîḇ, "El restores") the High Priest is mentioned in Nehemiah 12:10,22 and 3:1, 20-21,13:28 and possibly the Book of Ezra of the Hebrew Bible as (grand)father (Nehemiah 12:22) of the high priest Johanan (Ezra 10:6). Some also place him in different parts of Nehemiah including 12:23 and 13:4,7 ...
With the hand of God upon Nehemiah, along with Nehemiah's far-sighted policy and cunning, he is kept out of the hands of these neighboring foes. According to Nehemiah 13 :28, Nehemiah discovers that one of the grandsons of the current high priest, Eliashib , had married a daughter of Sanballat and was thus son-in-law of his chief enemy.
Nehemiah 13 is the thirteenth (and the final) chapter of the Book of Nehemiah in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible, [1] or the 23rd chapter of the book of Ezra-Nehemiah in the Hebrew Bible, which treats the book of Ezra and the book of Nehemiah as one book. [2]
The remaining books in the Ketuvim are the Book of Daniel, Ezra–Nehemiah and the Books of Chronicles. These books share a number of distinguishing characteristics: [citation needed] The Talmudic tradition ascribes late authorship to all of them. Daniel and Ezra are the only books in the Hebrew Bible with significant portions in Biblical Aramaic.