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Nehemiah · read by Harold Vaughan
15 verses, in order. Only the verses Harold 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 KJV · Lessons From Nehemiah
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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 · Lessons From Nehemiah
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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 · Lessons From Nehemiah
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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 · Lessons From Nehemiah
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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 · Lessons From Nehemiah
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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 · Lessons From Nehemiah
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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 KJV · Lessons From Nehemiah
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They are Your servants and Your people. You redeemed them by Your great power and mighty hand.Read from KJV · Lessons From Nehemiah
Nehemiah 2
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I set out at night with a few men. I did not tell anyone what my God had laid on my heart to do for Jerusalem. The only animal with me was the one on which I was riding.Read from KJV · Lessons From Nehemiah
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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 · Lessons From Nehemiah
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Then I went on to the Fountain Gate and the King's Pool, but there was no room for the animal under me to get through;Read from KJV · Lessons From Nehemiah
Nehemiah 4
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Now when Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he was furious and filled with indignation. He ridiculed the JewsRead from KJV · Lessons From Nehemiah
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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 · Lessons From Nehemiah
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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 · Lessons From Nehemiah
Nehemiah 6
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So the wall was completed in fifty-two days, on the twenty-fifth of Elul.Read from KJV · Lessons From Nehemiah