Peoples Gospel Church

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Esther+002       CHAPTER 2 (ESV) 16 And when Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus, into his royal palace, in the tenth month, which is the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign, 17 the king loved Esther more than all the women, and she won grace…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Esther+001       Esther The book of Esther explains why Jews in the Persian period began celebrating a new festival called Purim. The Law of Moses had earlier described how God’s mighty acts of deliverance lay behind holidays such as Passover and Tabernacles. The book of Esther shows how God…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Nehemiah+013     CHAPTER 13 (ESV) 23 In those days also I saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. 24 And half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod, and they could not speak the language of Judah, but only the language of each people.…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Nehemiah+012     CHAPTER 12 (ESV) 27 And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites in all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem to celebrate the dedication with gladness, with thanksgivings and with singing, with cymbals, harps, and lyres. 28 And the sons of the…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Nehemiah+011     CHAPTER 11 (ESV) 1 Now the leaders of the people lived in Jerusalem. And the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to live in Jerusalem the holy city, while nine out of ten remained in the other towns. 2 And the people…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Nehemiah+010     CHAPTER 10 (ESV) 32 “We also take on ourselves the obligation to give yearly a third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God: 33 for the showbread, the regular grain offering, the regular burnt offering, the Sabbaths, the new moons, the appointed…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Nehemiah+009     CHAPTER 9 (ESV) 1 Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the people of Israel were assembled with fasting and in sackcloth, and with earth on their heads. 2 And the Israelites separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of…

Read chapter in full: 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…

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,…