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Nehemiah · read by David Wilkerson
32 verses, in order. Only the verses David read aloud are shown.
Nehemiah 1
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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 · A Call to Anguish
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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 KJV · (Sweden) God's Controversy With the Evangelical Church of Sweden
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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 KJV · A Call to Anguish
Nehemiah 2
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So I went out at night through the Valley Gate toward the Well of the Serpent and the Dung Gate, and I inspected the walls of Jerusalem that had been broken down and the gates that had been destroyed by fire.Read from KJV · The Perfect Heart
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so I went up the valley by night and inspected the wall. Then I headed back and reentered through the Valley Gate.Read from KJV · The Perfect Heart
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 · A Time to Weep and a Time to Laugh
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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 · A Time to Weep and a Time to Laugh
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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 · A Time to Weep and a Time to Laugh
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Then Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God, and with their hands uplifted, all the people said, "Amen, Amen!" Then they bowed down and worshiped the LORD with their faces to the ground.Read from KJV · A Time to Weep and a Time to Laugh
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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 · A Time to Weep and a Time to Laugh
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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 · A Booth on the Roof
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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 · A Booth on the Roof
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And the Levites calmed all the people, saying, "Be still, since today is holy. Do not grieve."Read from KJV · A Booth on the Roof
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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 · A Booth on the Roof
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On the second day of the month, the heads of all the families, along with the priests and Levites, gathered around Ezra the scribe to study the words of the Law.Read from KJV · A Booth on the Roof
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So they proclaimed this message and spread it throughout their towns and in Jerusalem, saying, "Go out to the hill country and bring back branches of olive, wild olive, myrtle, palm, and other leafy trees, to make booths, as it is written."Read from KJV · A Booth on the Roof
Nehemiah 9
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For forty years You sustained them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.Read from KJV · The Liberation of Zion
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You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven and brought them to the land You had told their fathers to enter and possess.Read from KJV · How to Keep and Maintain the Blessings of God
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So their descendants went in and possessed the land; You subdued before them the Canaanites dwelling in the land. You delivered into their hands the kings and peoples of the land, to do with them as they wished.Read from KJV · Delivered by a Cry
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But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.Read from KJV · The Liberation of Zion
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So You delivered them into the hands of enemies who oppressed them, and in their time of distress they cried out to You. From heaven You heard them, and in Your great compassion You gave them deliverers who saved them from the hands of their enemies.Read from KJV · The Liberation of Zion
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But as soon as they had rest, they again did evil in Your sight. So You abandoned them to the hands of their enemies, who had dominion over them. When they cried out to You again, You heard from heaven, and You delivered them many times in Your compassion.Read from KJV · Delivered by a Cry
Nehemiah 13
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At that time the Book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people, and in it they found the passage stating that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,Read from KJV · Sharing the Grief of God
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because they had not met the Israelites with food and water, but had hired Balaam to call down a curse against them (although our God had turned the curse into a blessing).Read from KJV · Sharing the Grief of God
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As soon as the people heard this law, they excluded from Israel all of foreign descent.Read from KJV · Sharing the Grief of God
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Now before this, Eliashib the priest, a relative of Tobiah, had been put in charge of the storerooms of the house of our GodRead from NASB1995 · Moab Exposed
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and had prepared for Tobiah a large room where they had previously stored the grain offerings, the frankincense, the temple articles, and the tithes of grain, new wine, and oil prescribed for the Levites, singers, and gatekeepers, along with the contributions for the priests.Read from NASB1995 · Moab Exposed
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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 · Sharing the Grief of God
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And I was greatly displeased and threw all of Tobiah's household goods out of the room.Read from KJV · Sharing the Grief of God
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So I rebuked the officials and asked, "Why has the house of God been neglected?" Then I gathered the Levites and singers together and stationed them at their posts,Read from NASB1995 · Moab Exposed
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In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.Read from NASB1995 · Moab Exposed
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Did not King Solomon of Israel sin in matters like this? There was not a king like him among many nations, and he was loved by his God, who made him king over all Israel—yet foreign women drew him into sin.Read from NASB1995 · Moab Exposed