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Nehemiah · read by Shane Idleman
38 verses, in order. Only the verses Shane read aloud are shown.
Nehemiah 1
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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 NKJV · Assessing the Damage
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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 NKJV · Assessing the Damage
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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 · Assessing the Damage
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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 NKJV · Assessing the Damage
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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 NKJV · Assessing the Damage
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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 NKJV · Assessing the Damage
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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 · Assessing the Damage
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They are Your servants and Your people. You redeemed them by Your great power and mighty hand.Read from NKJV · Assessing the Damage
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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 · Assessing the Damage
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 · Assessing the Damage
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and replied to the king, "May the king live forever! Why should I not be sad when the city where my fathers are buried lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?"Read from NKJV · Assessing the Damage
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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 · Assessing the Damage
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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 · Assessing the Damage
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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 · Assessing the Damage
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After I had arrived in Jerusalem and had been there three days,Read from NASB1995 · Assessing the Damage
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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 NKJV · Assessing the Damage
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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 NKJV · Assessing the Damage
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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 NKJV · Assessing the Damage
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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 NKJV · Assessing the Damage
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 NKJV · Ten Principles of Warfare
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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 NKJV · Ten Principles of Warfare
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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 NKJV · Ten Principals of Warfare
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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 · Ten Principles of Warfare
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and all of them conspired to come and fight against Jerusalem and create a hindrance.Read from NKJV · Ten Principals of Warfare
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So we prayed to our God and posted a guard against them day and night.Read from NKJV · Ten Principles of Warfare
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And our enemies said, "Before they know or see a thing, we will come into their midst, kill them, and put an end to the work."Read from NKJV · Ten Principals of Warfare
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And from that day on, half of my servants did the work while the other half held spears, shields, bows, and armor. The officers stationed themselves behind all the people of JudahRead from NKJV · Ten Principles of Warfare
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who were rebuilding the wall. The laborers who carried materials worked with one hand and held a weapon with the other.Read from NKJV · Ten Principals of Warfare
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Then I said to the nobles, the officials, and the rest of the people: "The work is great and extensive, and we are spread out far from one another along the wall.Read from NKJV · Ten Principles of Warfare
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Wherever you hear the sound of the horn, rally to us there. Our God will fight for us!"Read from NKJV · Ten Principals of Warfare
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 NKJV · How to Handle Hate
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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 NKJV · How to Handle Hate
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and you have even appointed prophets in Jerusalem to proclaim on your behalf: 'There is a king in Judah.' Soon these rumors will reach the ears of the king. So come, let us confer together."Read from NKJV · How To Handle Hate (Don't Miss The End)
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Then I sent him this reply: "There is nothing to these rumors you are spreading; you are inventing them in your own mind."Read from NKJV · How To Handle Hate (Don't Miss The End)
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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 NKJV · How to Handle Hate
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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 NKJV · How to Handle Hate
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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 · How To Handle Hate (Don't Miss The End)
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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 NKJV · How to Handle Hate