Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Nehemiah+007     CHAPTER 7 (ESV) 1 Now when the wall had been built and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed, 2 I gave my brother Hanani and Hananiah the governor of the castle charge over Jerusalem, for he was…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Nehemiah+006     CHAPTER 6 (ESV) 10 Now when I went into the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah, son of Mehetabel, who was confined to his home, he said, “Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple. Let us close the doors of the temple,…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Nehemiah+005     CHAPTER 5 (ESV) 14 Moreover, from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year to the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, twelve years, neither I nor my brothers ate the food allowance of the governor. 15…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Nehemiah+004     CHAPTER 4 (ESV) 7 But when Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabs and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and that the breaches were beginning to be closed, they were very angry. 8 And they all plotted…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Nehemiah+003     CHAPTER 3 (ESV) 1 Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the Sheep Gate. They consecrated it and set its doors. They consecrated it as far as the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Tower of Hananel… 5…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Nehemiah+002     CHAPTER 2 (ESV) 4 Then the king said to me, “What are you requesting?” So I prayed to the God of heaven. 5 And I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you send me…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Nehemiah+001     Nehemiah In the fifth century B C, many Judeans were returning from exile to the southern part of the land of Israel. They faced great difficulties: their capital city and temple had been destroyed, foreigners had moved in, and they were no longer ruled by their own king.…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Ezra+010     CHAPTER 10 (ESV) 1 While Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children, gathered to him out of Israel, for the people wept bitterly. 2 And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, of…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Ezra+009     CHAPTER 9 (ESV) 1 After these things had been done, the officials approached me and said, “The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands with their abominations, from the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites,…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Ezra+008     CHAPTER 8 (ESV) 15 I gathered them to the river that runs to Ahava, and there we camped three days. As I reviewed the people and the priests, I found there none of the sons of Levi. 16 Then I sent for Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan,…