Nehemiah

Contents

Nehemiah 1

• News from Jerusalem
• Nehemiah prays

Nehemiah 2

• A request to the king
• A night ride around the ruins

Nehemiah 3

• Gate by gate, the wall goes up
• Sanballat sneers

Nehemiah 4

• A sword in one hand

Nehemiah 5

• The cry of the poor
• The governor who took nothing

Nehemiah 6

• Four invitations and a trap
• Fifty-two days

Nehemiah 7

• The empty city
• The register of those who came back first
• Priests, Levites and temple servants
• Those who could not prove their descent
• The totals and the gifts

Nehemiah 8

• The law read aloud at the Water Gate
• Living in shelters again

Nehemiah 9

• A day of fasting and confession
• The great prayer of the Levites
• Rebellion and patience
• And now, our God

Nehemiah 10

• The names on the sealed document
• What we bind ourselves to do

Nehemiah 11

• One in ten for the holy city
• The towns of Judah and Benjamin

Nehemiah 12

• Priests and Levites of the first return
• Two choirs on the wall
• Joy heard from far away

Nehemiah 13

• Tobiah thrown out of the temple
• The Levites go back to their fields
• The Sabbath under guard
• Foreign wives and a forgotten language