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Nehemiah · read by Mark Rhodes
21 verses, in order. Only the verses Mark read aloud are shown.
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 · Facing the Opposition
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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 · Facing the Opposition
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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 · Facing the Opposition
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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 · Facing the Opposition
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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 KJV · Facing the Opposition
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So we rebuilt the wall until all of it was joined together up to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.Read from KJV · Facing the Opposition
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So we prayed to our God and posted a guard against them day and night.Read from KJV · Facing the Opposition
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At that time the Jews who lived nearby came and told us ten times over, "Wherever you turn, they will attack us."Read from KJV · Facing the Opposition
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So I stationed men behind the lowest sections of the wall, at the vulnerable areas. I stationed them by families with their swords, spears, and bows.Read from KJV · Facing the Opposition
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So neither I nor my brothers nor my servants nor the guards with me changed out of our clothes; each carried his weapon, even to go for water.Read from KJV · Facing the Opposition
Nehemiah 5
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Some were saying, "We and our sons and daughters are numerous. We must get grain in order to eat and stay alive."Read from KJV · Facing the Opposition
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Others were saying, "We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our homes to get grain during the famine."Read from KJV · Facing the Opposition
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Still others were saying, "We have borrowed money to pay the king's tax on our fields and vineyards.Read from KJV · Facing the Opposition
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We and our children are just like our countrymen and their children, yet we are subjecting our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters are already enslaved, but we are powerless to redeem them because our fields and vineyards belong to others."Read from KJV · Facing the Opposition
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When I heard their outcry and these complaints, I became extremely angry,Read from KJV · Facing the Opposition
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 · Facing the Opposition
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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 · Facing the Opposition
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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 · Facing the Opposition
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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 · Facing the Opposition
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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 · Facing the Opposition
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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 · Facing the Opposition