His Words Are Life

Nehemiah 2:8 - Nehemiah 5:3

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Participants: Kelly Mowrer

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00:16 Hello, and welcome to His Words are Life.
00:18 I'm Kelly Mowrer and thank you for joining with me today to
00:21 read the word of God. Before we start, let's pray together.
00:24 Dear Father in heaven, thank you for your word that is to us
00:30 both light for our path and life for our hearts and an increase
00:36 to our faith in you. Help us to know you better
00:39 through the words we hear today. We love you so much, and thank
00:43 you for loving us. Amen. When we were last together,
00:46 we were reading in the book of Nehemiah.
00:48 Nehemiah was the cup bearer to king Artaxerxes, and as he went
00:53 before the king one day, the king perceived that something
00:56 was heavy on his heart. And Nehemiah had asked of the king
01:00 permission to return to help with the rebuilding of Jerusalem
01:04 and he is making a request to the king for the different
01:07 things that he would like from the king for his journey.
01:10 We'll pick up the story in Nehemiah chapter 2,
01:13 verse 8, and this is the King James Version.
01:16 And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's forest,
01:22 that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of
01:25 the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall
01:29 of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into.
01:31 And the king granted me, according to the good hand of
01:36 my God upon me. Then I came to the governors beyond the river,
01:40 and gave them the king's letters Now the king had sent captains
01:44 of the army and horsemen with me. When Sanballat the Horonite,
01:50 and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it,
01:52 it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek
01:56 the welfare of the children of Israel. So I came to Jerusalem,
02:01 and was there three days. And I arose in the night, I and
02:05 some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God had
02:10 put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither was there
02:13 any beast with me save the beast that I rode upon.
02:16 And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before
02:21 the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of
02:25 Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof
02:29 were consumed with fire. Then I went on to the gate of the
02:33 fountain, and to the king's pool: but there was no place
02:36 for the beast that was under me to pass. Then went I up in the
02:40 night by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back,
02:43 and entered by the gate of the valley, and so returned.
02:46 And the rulers knew not whither I went, or what I did;
02:50 neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests,
02:55 nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that did
02:59 the work. Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are
03:04 in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are
03:08 burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall
03:13 of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach. Then I told them
03:19 of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also the king's
03:24 words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise
03:28 up and build. So they strengthened their hands
03:32 for this good work. But when Sanballat the Horonite, and
03:37 Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite and Geshem the Arabian, heard it
03:41 they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said,
03:45 What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?
03:50 Then answered I them, and said unto them, The God of heaven,
03:56 he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise
04:02 and build: but ye have no portion nor right, nor memorial,
04:07 in Jerusalem. We're continuing on with
04:12 Nehemiah, chapter 3, and this is the King James Version.
04:15 Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the
04:22 priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it,
04:27 and set up the doors of it; even unto the tower of Meah
04:30 they sanctified it, unto the tower of Hananeel.
04:33 And next unto him builded the men of Jericho. And next to
04:36 them builded Zaccur the son of Imri.
04:38 But the fish gate did the sons of Hassenaah build, who also
04:43 laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof,
04:45 the locks therof, and the bars thereof. And next unto them
04:49 repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah, the son of Koz.
04:53 And next unto them repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah,
04:57 the son of Meshezabeel. And next unto them repaired Zadok the son
05:02 of Baana. And next unto them the Tekoites repaired;
05:07 but their nobles put not their necks to the work of the Lord.
05:11 Moreover the old gate repaired Jehoiada the son of Paseah,
05:16 and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah; they laid the beams
05:21 thereof, and set up the doors thereof, and the locks thereof,
05:24 and the bars thereof. And next unto them repaired Melatiah
05:30 the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon,
05:34 and of Mizpah, unto the throne of the governor on this side
05:37 the river. Next unto him repaired Uzziel the son
05:42 of Harhaiah, of the goldsmiths. Next unto him also repaired
05:47 Hananiah the son of one of the apothecaries, and they fortified
05:51 Jerusalem unto the broad wall. And next unto them repaired
05:56 Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of the half part of
06:00 Jerusalem. And next unto them repaired Jedaiah the son of
06:03 Harumaph, even over against his house. And next unto him
06:09 repaired Hattush the son of Hashabniah. Malchiajah the son
06:14 of Harim, and Hashub the son of Pahathmoab, repaired the other
06:17 piece, and the tower of the furnaces. And next unto him
06:21 repaired Shallum the son of Halohesh the ruler of the half
06:25 part of Jerusalem, he and his daughters. The valley gate
06:30 repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah;
06:32 they built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof
06:36 and the bars thereof,and a thousand cubits on the wall
06:39 unto the dung gate. But the dung gate repaired Malchiah the son
06:45 of Rechab, the ruler of part of Bethhaccerem;
06:49 he built it and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof,
06:53 and the bars thereof. But the gate of the fountain repaired
06:56 Shallum the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah;
07:00 he built it and covered it, and set up the doors thereof,
07:03 the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and the wall of the
07:07 pool of Siloah by the king's garden, and unto the stairs
07:11 that go down from the city of David. After him repaired
07:15 Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of the half part of
07:18 Bethzur, unto the place over against the sepulchres of David,
07:21 and to the pool that was made, and unto the house of the mighty
07:25 After him repaired the Levites, Rehum the son of Bani.
07:30 Next unto him repaired Hashabiah the ruler of the half part
07:35 of Keilah in his part. After him repaired their brethren,
07:39 Bavai the son of Henadad, the ruler of the half part of Keilah
07:45 and next to him repaired Ezer the son of Jeshua, the ruler of
07:49 Mizpah, another piece over against the going up to the
07:52 armory at the turning of the wall. After him Baruch the son
07:57 of Zabbai earnestly repaired the other piece, from the turning of
08:01 the wall unto the door of the house of Eliashib the highpriest
08:05 After him repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah the son of Koz
08:10 another piece, from the door of the house of Eliashib even to
08:14 the end of the house of Eliashib. After him repaired
08:18 the priests, the men of the plain. After him repaired
08:22 Benjamin and Hashub over against their house. After him repaired
08:25 Azariah the son of Maaseiah the son of Ananiah by his house.
08:30 After him repaired Binui the son of Henadad another piece,
08:35 from the house of Azariah unto the turning of the wall,
08:38 even unto the corner. Palal the son of Uzai, over against
08:43 the turning of the wall, and the tower which lieth out from the
08:46 king's high house, that was by the court of the prison.
08:48 After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh. Moreover the Nethinims
08:54 dwelt in Ophel, unto the place over against the water gate
08:57 toward the east, and the tower that lieth out. After them the
09:01 Tekoites repaired another piece, over against the great tower
09:04 that lieth out, even to the wall of Ophel. From above the horse
09:08 gate repaired the priests, every one over against his house.
09:12 After them repaired Zadok the son of Immer over against his
09:16 house. After him repaired also Shemaiah the son of Shechaniah,
09:20 the keeper of the east gate. After him repaired Hananiah
09:24 the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph,
09:28 another piece. After him repaired Meshullam the son of
09:32 Berechiah over against his chamber. After him repaired
09:37 Malchiah the goldsmith's son unto the place of the Nethinims,
09:41 and of the merchants, over against the gate Miphkad,
09:44 unto the going up of the corner. And between the going up of the
09:48 unto the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants.
09:53 Continuing with Nehemiah's account in chapter 4,
09:56 This is the King James Version. But it came to pass, that when
10:01 Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth,
10:05 and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews. And he spake
10:10 before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said,
10:13 What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves?
10:16 will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day?
10:20 will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish
10:24 which are burned? Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and
10:29 he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall
10:33 even break down their stone wall. Hear, O our God;
10:38 for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own
10:42 head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:
10:46 And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted
10:50 out from before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger
10:53 before the builders. So we built the wall; and all the wall
10:58 was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people
11:02 had a mind to work. But it came to pass, that when Sanballat,
11:07 and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites,
11:11 and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made
11:14 up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were
11:19 very wroth, and conspired all of them together to come and to
11:23 fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it. Nevertheless we made
11:28 our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them
11:33 day and night, because of them. And Judah said, The strength of
11:37 the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much
11:41 rubbish so that we are not able to build the wall.
11:43 And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see,
11:48 till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause
11:52 the work to cease. And it came to pass, that when the Jews
11:56 which dwelt by them came, they said unto us ten times,
12:00 >From all places whence ye shall return unto us they will be
12:03 upon you. Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall,
12:09 and on the higher places, I even set the people after their
12:11 families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
12:14 And I looked and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the
12:18 rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them
12:22 remember the Lord, which is great and terrible, and fight
12:27 for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives,
12:30 and your houses. And it came to pass when our enemies heard that
12:35 it was known unto us, and God had brought their counsel
12:38 to naught, that we returned all of us to the wall,
12:42 every one unto his work. And it came to pass from that time
12:48 forth, that the half of my servants wrought in the work,
12:52 and the other half of them held both the spears, the shields,
12:56 and the bows, and the habergeons; and the rulers were
12:59 behind all the house of Judah. They which builded on the wall,
13:04 and they that bare burdens, with those that laded,
13:06 every one with one of his hands wrought in the work,
13:09 and with the other hand held a weapon. For the builders,
13:14 every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded.
13:18 And he that sounded the trumpet was by me.
13:21 And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest
13:25 of the people, The work is great and large, and we are separated
13:29 upon the wall, one far from another. In what place therefore
13:33 ye hear the sound of the trumpet resort ye thither unto us:
13:38 our God shall fight for us. So we laboured in the work:
13:44 and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning
13:47 till the stars appeared. Likewise at the same time
13:50 said I unto the people, Let every one with his servant
13:53 lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard
13:56 to us, and labour on the day. So neither I, nor my brethren,
14:02 nor my servants, nor the men of the guard which followed me,
14:05 none of us put off our clothes, saving that every one put them
14:10 off for washing. Continuing with chapter 5,
14:15 and this is the King James Version.
14:16 And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives
14:20 against their brethren the Jews. For there were that said,
14:24 We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up
14:27 corn for them, that we may eat, and live. Some also there were
14:32 that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses
14:34 that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.
14:37 Please join me again next time. Goodbye.


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