Nehemiah

Treated in 51 passages across the library.

The memoir of Nehemiah, cupbearer to the Persian king, who returned to rebuild the broken walls of Jerusalem. It shows him praying, planning and working under threat ("we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch") and completing the walls in fifty-two days. Ezra then reads the law to the gathered people, and a time of confession and covenant renewal follows.

Chapters

The verses these writers stop at

Open Word Bible

Where it is preached

  1. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    1.3 The Preface to the Commandments cites Neh 9: 13

    …known them.’ Psa 147: 20. ‘Thou gavest them true laws, good statutes and commandments.’ Neh 9: 13. What a strange creature would man be if he had no law to direct him! There would be no…

  2. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    Man's Chief End cites Neh 8:6

    …enemy to courtesy. (2.) A divine worship which we give to God as his royal prerogative. Neh 8:6. ‘They bowed their heads, and worshipped the Lord with their faces towards the ground.’…

  3. Our Daily Walk · F. B. Meyer

    May cites Neh 8:10

    …know what Nehemiah and Ezra meant when they said: “The joy of the Lord is your strength” (Neh 8:10). If you have some secret sorrow, tell it to God, but do not impose it needlessly upon…

  4. Evening by Evening · Charles H. Spurgeon

    February cites Nehemiah 9:20

    …ye ivory palaces, ye shall hear the songs of the saints! February 16 “Thy good Spirit.” (Nehemiah 9:20) Common, too common is the sin of forgetting the Holy Spirit. This is folly and…

  5. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 3, Chapter 4 — Penitence, as Explained in the Sophistical Jargon of the Schoolmen, Widely Different from the Purity Required by the Gospel cites Neh. 1:6

    …which the whole people made under the authority and guidance of Ezra and Nehemiah (Neh. 1:6, 7). For their long captivity, the destruction of the temple, and suppression of their…

  6. Days of Heaven Upon Earth · A. B. Simpson

    January cites Neh. viii. 10

    …in blessing to others. January 29 “Send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared” (Neh. viii. 10). That was a fine picture in the days of Nehemiah, when they were celebrating their…

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