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Nehemiah · read by Carter Conlon
59 verses, in order. Only the verses Carter read aloud are shown.
Nehemiah 1
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These are the words of Nehemiah son of Hacaliah: In the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, while I was in the citadel of Susa,Read from NKJV · Rebuilding The Wall Of Prayer
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Hanani, one of my brothers, arrived with men from Judah. So I questioned them about the remnant of the Jews who had survived the exile, and also about Jerusalem.Read from KJV · Nothing Can Stop What God Is Doing
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And they told me, "The remnant who survived the exile are there in the province, in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates are burned with fire."Read from KJV · Nothing Can Stop What God Is Doing
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When I heard these words, I sat down and wept. I mourned for days, fasting and praying before the God of heaven.Read from NKJV · From A Mess To An Enduring Message (Video)
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Then I said: "O LORD, God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion with those who love Him and keep His commandments,Read from KJV · A Call to Those Who Care About the Honor of God
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let Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to hear the prayer that I, Your servant, now pray before You day and night for Your servants, the Israelites. I confess the sins that we Israelites have committed against You. Both I and my father's house have sinned.Read from KJV · A Call to Those Who Care About the Honor of God
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We have behaved corruptly against You and have not kept the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that You gave Your servant Moses.Read from KJV · A Call to Those Who Care About the Honor of God
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Remember, I pray, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses when You said, 'If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations,Read from NKJV · The Prayer Before You Pray
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but if you return to Me and keep and practice My commandments, then even if your exiles have been banished to the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for My Name.'Read from NKJV · The Prayer Before You Pray
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They are Your servants and Your people. You redeemed them by Your great power and mighty hand.Read from KJV · A Call to Those Who Care About the Honor of God
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O Lord, may Your ear be attentive to my prayer and to the prayers of Your servants who delight to revere Your name. Give Your servant success this day, I pray, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man." (At that time I was the cupbearer to the king.)Read from NKJV · From A Mess To An Enduring Message (Video)
Nehemiah 2
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Now in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was set before him, I took the wine and gave it to the king. I had never been sad in his presence,Read from NKJV · Rebuilding The Wall Of Prayer (Video)
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so the king said to me, "Why is your face sad, though you are not ill? This could only be sadness of the heart." I was overwhelmed with fearRead from NKJV · Rebuilding The Wall Of Prayer
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"What is your request?" replied the king. So I prayed to the God of heavenRead from NKJV · A Prayer That Promises Joy
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and answered the king, "If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, I ask that you send me to Judah, to the city where my fathers are buried, so that I may rebuild it."Read from NKJV · From A Mess To An Enduring Message (Video)
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Then the king, with the queen seated beside him, asked me, "How long will your journey take, and when will you return?" So it pleased the king to send me, and I set a time.Read from NKJV · From A Mess To An Enduring Message (Video)
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I also said to him, "If it pleases the king, may letters be given to me for the governors west of the Euphrates, so that they will grant me safe passage until I reach Judah.Read from NKJV · From a Mess to an Enduring Message
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And may I have a letter to Asaph, keeper of the king's forest, so that he will give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel to the temple, for the city wall, and for the house I will occupy." And because the gracious hand of my God was upon me, the king granted my requests.Read from NKJV · From A Mess To An Enduring Message (Video)
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But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official heard about this, they were deeply disturbed that someone had come to seek the well-being of the Israelites.Read from KJV · Nothing Can Stop What God Is Doing
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Then I said to them, "You see the trouble we are in. Jerusalem lies in ruins, and its gates have been burned down. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, so that we will no longer be a disgrace."Read from KJV · Nothing Can Stop What God Is Doing
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I also told them about the gracious hand of my God upon me, and what the king had said to me. "Let us start rebuilding," they replied, and they set their hands to this good work.Read from KJV · Nothing Can Stop What God Is Doing
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But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard about this, they mocked us and ridiculed us, saying, "What is this you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?"Read from KJV · Nothing Can Stop What God Is Doing
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So I answered them and said, "The God of heaven is the One who will grant us success. We, His servants, will start rebuilding, but you have no portion, right, or claim in Jerusalem."Read from KJV · Nothing Can Stop What God Is Doing
Nehemiah 4
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before his associates and the army of Samaria, saying, "What are these feeble Jews doing? Can they restore the wall by themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they complete it in a day? Can they bring these burnt stones back to life from the mounds of rubble?"Read from KJV · Nothing Can Stop What God Is Doing
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Then Tobiah the Ammonite, who was beside him, said, "If even a fox were to climb up on what they are building, it would break down their wall of stones!"Read from KJV · Nothing Can Stop What God Is Doing
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Hear us, O God, for we are despised. Turn their scorn back upon their own heads, and let them be taken as plunder to a land of captivity.Read from KJV · Nothing Can Stop What God Is Doing
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Do not cover up their iniquity or let their sin be blotted out from Your sight, for they have provoked the builders.Read from NKJV · From a Mess to an Enduring Message
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When Sanballat and Tobiah, together with the Arabs, Ammonites, and Ashdodites, heard that the repair to the walls of Jerusalem was progressing and that the gaps were being closed, they were furious,Read from NKJV · From a Mess to an Enduring Message
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and all of them conspired to come and fight against Jerusalem and create a hindrance.Read from NKJV · From a Mess to an Enduring Message
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So we prayed to our God and posted a guard against them day and night.Read from NKJV · From A Mess To An Enduring Message (Video)
Nehemiah 6
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When Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall and not a gap was left—though to that time I had not yet installed the doors in the gates—Read from KJV · Nothing Can Stop What God Is Doing
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Sanballat and Geshem sent me this message: "Come, let us meet together in one of the villages on the plain of Ono." But they were planning to harm me.Read from KJV · Nothing Can Stop What God Is Doing
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So I sent messengers to them, saying, "I am doing a great work and cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it to go down to you?"Read from KJV · Nothing Can Stop What God Is Doing
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Four times they sent me the same message, and each time I gave the same reply.Read from KJV · Nothing Can Stop What God Is Doing
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For they were all trying to frighten us, saying, "Their hands will be weakened in the work, and it will never be finished." But now, my God, strengthen my hands.Read from NKJV · From A Mess To An Enduring Message (Video)
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Later, I went to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was confined to his house. He said: "Let us meet at the house of God inside the temple. Let us shut the temple doors because they are coming to kill you— by night they are coming to kill you!"Read from KJV · Nothing Can Stop What God Is Doing
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But I replied, "Should a man like me run away? Should one like me go into the temple to save his own life? I will not go!"Read from KJV · Nothing Can Stop What God Is Doing
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I realized that God had not sent him, but that he had uttered this prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.Read from KJV · Nothing Can Stop What God Is Doing
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He had been hired to intimidate me so that I would sin by doing as he suggested, so they could give me a bad name in order to discredit me.Read from KJV · Nothing Can Stop What God Is Doing
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O my God, remember Tobiah and Sanballat for what they have done, and also Noadiah the prophetess and the other prophets who tried to intimidate me.Read from NKJV · From a Mess to an Enduring Message
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So the wall was completed in fifty-two days, on the twenty-fifth of Elul.Read from KJV · Nothing Can Stop What God Is Doing
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When all our enemies heard about this, all the surrounding nations were afraid and disheartened, for they realized that this task had been accomplished by our God.Read from KJV · Nothing Can Stop What God Is Doing
Nehemiah 8
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At that time all the people gathered together in the square before the Water Gate, and they asked Ezra the scribe to bring out the Book of the Law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded for Israel.Read from KJV · The Incredible Strength of Knowing God's Joy
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On the first day of the seventh month, Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly of men and women and all who could listen and understand.Read from KJV · The Incredible Strength of Knowing God's Joy
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So Ezra read it aloud from daybreak until noon as he faced the square before the Water Gate, in front of the men and women and those who could understand. And all the people listened attentively to the Book of the Law.Read from KJV · The Incredible Strength of Knowing God's Joy
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So they read from the Book of the Law of God, explaining it and giving insight, so that the people could understand what was being read.Read from KJV · The Joy of the Lord Is Your Strength
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Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were instructing the people said to all of them, "This day is holy to the LORD your God. Do not mourn or weep." For all the people were weeping as they heard the words of the Law.Read from KJV · Finding and Keeping the Joy of the Lord
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Then Nehemiah told them, "Go and eat what is rich, drink what is sweet, and send out portions to those who have nothing prepared, since today is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength."Read from KJV · The Joy of the Lord Is Your Strength
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And the Levites calmed all the people, saying, "Be still, since today is holy. Do not grieve."Read from KJV · The Joy of the Lord Is Your Strength
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Then all the people began to eat and drink, to send out portions, and to rejoice greatly, because they understood the words that had been made known to them.Read from KJV · The Incredible Strength of Knowing God's Joy
Nehemiah 12
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At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, the Levites were sought out from all their homes and brought to Jerusalem to celebrate the joyous dedication with thanksgiving and singing, accompanied by cymbals, harps, and lyres.Read from KJV · Praising God at the Dung Gate
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The singers were also assembled from the region around Jerusalem, from the villages of the Netophathites,Read from KJV · Praising God at the Dung Gate
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After the priests and Levites had purified themselves, they purified the people, the gates, and the wall.Read from KJV · Praising God at the Dung Gate
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Then I brought the leaders of Judah up on the wall, and I appointed two great thanksgiving choirs. One was to proceed along the top of the wall to the right, toward the Dung Gate.Read from KJV · Praising God at the Dung Gate
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The two thanksgiving choirs then stood in the house of God, as did I, along with the half of the officials accompanying me,Read from KJV · Praising God at the Dung Gate
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On that day they offered great sacrifices, rejoicing because God had given them great joy. The women and children also rejoiced, so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard from afar.Read from KJV · Praising God at the Dung Gate
Nehemiah 13
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to return to Jerusalem. Then I discovered the evil that Eliashib had done on behalf of Tobiah by providing him a room in the courts of the house of God.Read from KJV · A Call to Those Who Care About the Honor of God
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Then I ordered that the rooms be purified, and I had the articles of the house of God restored to them, along with the grain offerings and frankincense.Read from KJV · A Call to Those Who Care About the Honor of God
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Once or twice, the merchants and those who sell all kinds of goods camped outside Jerusalem,Read from KJV · A Call to Those Who Care About the Honor of God