Nehemiah

How To Use Nehemiah In A Sentence

• On our sixth circuit through the Bible, I had thought we might want to skip the thousand or so names in 1 Chronicles and Nehemiah.
• At its heart were not only the shared law codes and rules of sacrifice, but the saga of national history that began with the call of Abraham in distant Ur and ended with the restoration of the Temple community by Ezra and Nehemiah in the postexilic period. The Bible Unearthed
• Methinks there should be that magnanimity in every Christian, that he should scorn to be outbraved by any, in point of spiritual fortitude; and to make that noble resolution that Nehemiah did, in chap. vi. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.
• Filled with sorrow over the broken and neglected state of his homeland, he asked King Artaxerxes for permission to return (Nehemiah 2:5).
• Nehemiah heard the broken walls and the desolateand he brought it in prayer to God.
• Zerubbabel, and after him Ezra and Nehemiah, labored most earnestly to restore the worship of God among the people, and to reinfuse something of national life and spirit into their hearts. Smith's Bible Dictionary
• I Esdras, ix-x, and they likewise hold that Nehemiah 'name has been interpolated in Neh., viii, 9, and x, 1. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
• But there is a secondary history (Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah) included in the Writings.
• Nehemiah, who goes with Christ-like love to a ruined Jerusalem, may have lived on in my mind, but my spirit was overtaken by a waspish bitterness that contradicted in my life what I had tried to argue in my book.
• It was upon these grounds, at least on the religious ideological level, that the exclusionists, led by Nehemiah and Ezra, based their attack on mixed marriages.