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Nehemiah · read by Zac Poonen
36 verses, in order. Only the verses Zac 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 NASB1995 · From Babylon to Jerusalem - (Nehemiah) ch.1 & 2
Nehemiah 2
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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 NASB1995 · From Babylon to Jerusalem - (Nehemiah) ch.1 & 2
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Then I went to the governors west of the Euphrates and gave them the king's letters. The king had also sent army officers and cavalry with me.Read from NASB1995 · From Babylon to Jerusalem - (Nehemiah) ch.1 & 2
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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 NASB1995 · From Babylon to Jerusalem - (Nehemiah) ch.1 & 2
Nehemiah 3
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The men of Jericho built next to Eliashib, and Zaccur son of Imri built next to them.Read from NASB1995 · From Babylon to Jerusalem - (Nehemiah) ch.3 & 4
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Next to him, the Tekoites made repairs, but their nobles did not put their shoulders to the work under their supervisors.Read from NASB1995 · From Babylon to Jerusalem - (Nehemiah) ch.3 & 4
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Above the Horse Gate, each of the priests made repairs in front of his own house.Read from NASB1995 · From Babylon to Jerusalem - (Nehemiah) ch.3 & 4
Nehemiah 4
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So we prayed to our God and posted a guard against them day and night.Read from NASB1995 · From Babylon to Jerusalem - (Nehemiah) ch.3 & 4
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When our enemies heard that we were aware of their scheme and that God had frustrated it, each of us returned to his own work on the wall.Read from NASB1995 · From Babylon to Jerusalem - (Nehemiah) ch.3 & 4
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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 NASB1995 · From Babylon to Jerusalem - (Nehemiah) ch.3 & 4
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Wherever you hear the sound of the horn, rally to us there. Our God will fight for us!"Read from NASB1995 · From Babylon to Jerusalem - (Nehemiah) ch.3 & 4
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So we continued the work, while half of the men held spears from the break of dawn until the stars came out.Read from NASB1995 · From Babylon to Jerusalem - (Nehemiah) ch.3 & 4
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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 NASB1995 · From Babylon to Jerusalem - (Nehemiah) ch.3 & 4
Nehemiah 5
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About that time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.Read from NASB1995 · From Babylon to Jerusalem - (Nehemiah) ch.5 & 6
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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 NASB1995 · From Babylon to Jerusalem - (Nehemiah) ch.5 & 6
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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 NASB1995 · From Babylon to Jerusalem - (Nehemiah) ch.5 & 6
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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 NASB1995 · From Babylon to Jerusalem - (Nehemiah) ch.5 & 6
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So I continued, "What you are doing is not right. Shouldn't you walk in the fear of our God to avoid the reproach of our foreign enemies?Read from NASB1995 · From Babylon to Jerusalem - (Nehemiah) ch.5 & 6
Nehemiah 6
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Also in those days, the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and Tobiah's letters came back to them.Read from NASB1995 · From Babylon to Jerusalem - (Nehemiah) ch.5 & 6
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For many in Judah were bound by oath to him, since he was a son-in-law of Shecaniah son of Arah, and his son Jehohanan had married the daughter of Meshullam son of Berechiah.Read from NASB1995 · From Babylon to Jerusalem - (Nehemiah) ch.5 & 6
Nehemiah 7
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These men searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.Read from NASB1995 · From Babylon to Jerusalem - (Nehemiah) ch.7 & 8
Nehemiah 8
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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 NASB1995 · From Babylon to Jerusalem - (Nehemiah) ch.7 & 8
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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 NASB1995 · From Babylon to Jerusalem - (Nehemiah) ch.7 & 8
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And they found written in the Law, which the LORD had commanded through Moses, that the Israelites were to dwell in booths during the feast of the seventh month.Read from NASB1995 · From Babylon to Jerusalem - (Nehemiah) ch.7 & 8
Nehemiah 9
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On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth, with dust on their heads.Read from NASB1995 · From Babylon to Jerusalem - (Nehemiah) ch.9 & 10
Nehemiah 11
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Now the leaders of the people settled in Jerusalem, and the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to live in the holy city of Jerusalem, while the remaining nine were to dwell in their own towns.Read from NASB1995 · From Babylon to Jerusalem - (Nehemiah) ch.11 - ch.13
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And the people blessed all the men who volunteered to live in Jerusalem.Read from NASB1995 · From Babylon to Jerusalem - (Nehemiah) ch.11 - ch.13
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The descendants of Perez who settled in Jerusalem totaled 468 men of valor.Read from NASB1995 · From Babylon to Jerusalem - (Nehemiah) ch.11 - ch.13
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 NASB1995 · From Babylon to Jerusalem - (Nehemiah) ch.11 - ch.13
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As soon as the people heard this law, they excluded from Israel all of foreign descent.Read from NASB1995 · From Babylon to Jerusalem - (Nehemiah) ch.11 - ch.13
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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 · From Babylon to Jerusalem - (Nehemiah) ch.11 - ch.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 NASB1995 · From Babylon to Jerusalem - (Nehemiah) ch.11 - ch.13
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and all Judah brought a tenth of the grain, new wine, and oil into the storerooms.Read from NASB1995 · From Babylon to Jerusalem - (Nehemiah) ch.11 - ch.13
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Thus I purified the priests and Levites from everything foreign, and I assigned specific duties to each of the priests and Levites.Read from NASB1995 · From Babylon to Jerusalem - (Nehemiah) ch.11 - ch.13