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260 Bible Reading & Devotion: December 16, 2019 – Nehemiah 8
Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Nehemiah+008 CHAPTER 8 (ESV) 9 And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, “This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn or weep.” For all the people wept as…
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260 Bible Reading & Devotion: December 13, 2019 – Nehemiah 7
Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Nehemiah+007 CHAPTER 7 (ESV) 7 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…
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260 Bible Reading & Devotion: December 12, 2019 – Nehemiah 6
Read chapter in full: www.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,…
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260 Bible Reading & Devotion: December 11, 2019 – Nehemiah 5
Read chapter in full: www.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…
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260 Bible Reading & Devotion: December 10, 2019 – Nehemiah 4
Read chapter in full: www.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…
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260 Bible Reading & Devotion: December 9, 2019 – Nehemiah 3
Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Nehemiah+003 CHAPTER 3 (ESV) 3 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…
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260 Bible Reading & Devotion: December 6, 2019 – Nehemiah 2
Read chapter in full: www.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…
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260 Bible Reading & Devotion: December 5, 2019 – Nehemiah 1
Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Nehemiah+001 Nehemiah In the fifth century BC, 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. But the…
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260 Bible Reading & Devotion: December 4, 2019 – Ezra 10
Read chapter in full: www.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…
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260 Bible Reading & Devotion: December 3, 2019 – Ezra 9
Read chapter in full: www.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,…