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This prayer consists of five portions: (1) the opening address, Nehemiah 1:5 (2) the humble approach, Nehemiah 1:6a (3) the confession of sins, Nehemiah 1:6b, 7 (4) the appeal to the Divine Promise, Nehemiah 1:8–10 (5) the closing supplication for (a) the people, and (b) Nehemiah as their representative at the royal court, Nehemiah 1:11. [18]
Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them. [11]The month was Tishrei.The feast of tabernacles began on the fourteenth day of the month, and ended on the twenty-second, "all which time mourning had been forbidden, as contrary to the nature of the feast, which was to be kept with joy".
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 ().
The Rebuilding of Jerusalem. In the 20th year of Artaxerxes I (445 or 444 BC), [4] Nehemiah was cup-bearer to the king. [5] Learning that the remnant of Jews in Judah were in distress and that the walls of Jerusalem were broken down, he asked the king for permission to return and rebuild the city, [6] around 13 years after Ezra's arrival in Jerusalem in ca. 458 BC. [7]
Nehemiah was considered to have been a member of the Great Assembly. [18] Since Nehemiah himself was a member, Samuel b. Marta, a pupil of Rav, quoted a phrase used by Nehemiah in his prayer (1:7) as originating with his colleagues. [19] Ezra was, of course, one of the members, and, according to Nehemiah 8, he was even regarded as the leader.
The city of Jerusalem is rebuilt and the defensive wall repaired. The names of people who worked on the restoration are listed. PEOPLE: Eliashib - Zaccur - Meremoth - Meshullam (son of Berechiah) - Zadok (son of Baana) - Tekoites - יהוה YHVH - Jehoiada - Meshullam (son of Besodeiah) - Melatiah - Jadon - Uzziel - Hananiah [disambiguation needed] - Rephaiah - Jedaiah - Hattush - Malchijah ...
With each step forward, Nehemiah faced obstacles to complete the wall, but he persevered with prayer and hard work. [16] In this section he described the plot ( verses 7 – 9 ), discouragement ( 10 ), threats and rumors ( 11–12 ) against him, but then he found his resolve ( 13–15 ) and executed his contingency plans ( 16–23 ).
An ancient Greek book called 1 Esdras (Greek: Ἔσδρας Αʹ) containing some parts of 2 Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah is included in most editions of the Septuagint and is placed before the single book of Ezra–Nehemiah (which is titled in Greek: Ἔσδρας Βʹ). 1 Esdras 9:37-55 is an equivalent of Nehemiah 7:73-8:12 (The reading of ...