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Nehemiah opens with “A Cupbearer Asks for Leave” and carries its history toward “What Happens When He Leaves.” News reaches the palace at Susa that the wall of Jerusalem is broken down and the gates are burned, and the king’s cupbearer weeps and fasts for months before he says a word. Jerusalem is repopulated by lot, and the wall is dedicated by two choirs walking round it in opposite directions until they meet at the temple, loud enough to be heard far off.
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Nehemiah 1–3
News reaches the palace at Susa that the wall of Jerusalem is broken down and the gates are burned, and the king’s cupbearer weeps and fasts for months before he says a word. When the king finally notices his face he asks for timber, letters and time. He rides around the ruins alone at night, and the list of builders that follows includes goldsmiths, perfumers and one man’s daughters.
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Nehemiah 4–6
Sanballat and Tobiah move from mockery to threats to ambush, so the workers build with a weapon beside them and half the men stand guard. The worse crisis is inside the wall: the poor are mortgaging their children to their own countrymen, and Nehemiah makes the nobles hand it back. Four times he is invited to a meeting out on the plain, and four times he answers that he is doing a great work and cannot come down.
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Nehemiah 7–8
Ezra stands on a wooden platform from morning until midday and reads, with Levites moving through the crowd giving the sense. The people weep at what they hear, and are told not to, because the day is holy and the joy of the LORD is their strength.
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Nehemiah 9–10
They fast, stand up and rehearse the whole history out loud from Abraham to the present, admitting at each stage what was done. Then they write it down and the leaders put their names to it, promising specific things rather than general good intentions.
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Nehemiah 11–13
Jerusalem is repopulated by lot, and the wall is dedicated by two choirs walking round it in opposite directions until they meet at the temple, loud enough to be heard far off. Then Nehemiah goes back to Persia. He returns to find Tobiah living in a temple storeroom, the Levites gone back to their fields because nobody paid them, trading as usual on the Sabbath, and children who cannot speak the language of Judah.
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Nehemiah 12:27-47
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Nehemiah
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