Bible Dictionary: the Book Of Nehemiah

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the Book Of Nehemiah

like the preceding one of Ezra, is clearly and certainly not all by the same hand. [EZRA, BOOK OF, BOOK OF] By far the most important portion, indeed is the work of Nehemiah but other portions are either extracts from various chronicles and registers or supplementary narratives and reflections, some apparently by Ezra, others, perhaps the work of the same person who inserted the latest, genealogical extracts from the public chronicles. The main history contained in the book of Nehemiah covers about twelve years, viz., from the twentieth to the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes Langimanus i.e. from B.C. 445 to 433. The whole narrative gives us a graphic and interesting account of the state of Jerusalem and the returned captives in the writer's times, and, incidentally, of the nature of the Persian government and the condition of its remote provinces, The book of Nehemiah has always had an undisputed place in the Canon, being included by the Hebrews under the general head of the book of Ezra, and, as Jerome tells us in the Prolog. Gal., by the Greeks and Latins under the name of the second book of Ezra.

Library

Ezra-Nehemiah
... Their contents overlap, much that was done by Ezra being recorded in the book of
Nehemiah (viii.-x.). The books are regarded as one in the Jewish canon; the ...
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The Restoration.
... Nehemiah. (3) The third colony was led to Jerusalem by Nehemiah (the book
of Nehemiah). The number returning is not given. Nehemiah ...
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Was Moses "A Literary Fiction"?
... In the eighth chapter of the book of Nehemiah, that great servant of God affirms
his faith in the Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch, which was also the faith ...
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Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther.
... establishment of their worship. They soon came to be called First and Second
Ezra. Jerome first called the second book Nehemiah. ...
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Methodist Articles of Religion. AD 1784.
... First Book of Kings, The Second Book of Kings, The First Book of Chronicles, The
Second Book of Chronicles, The Book of Ezra, The Book of Nehemiah, The Book of ...
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The Scattering of the People
... Nehemiah 8:1.). A solemn day that was, as we read in the Book of Nehemiah,
a day of real returning to the Lord. Picture them standing ...
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Reading the Law with Tears and Joy
... THE BOOK OF NEHEMIAH READING THE LAW WITH TEARS AND JOY. 'And all the people
gathered themselves together as one man into the street ...
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Expositions of Holy Scripture
... HEROIC FAITH. THE CHARGE OF THE PILGRIM PRIESTS. THE BOOK OF NEHEMIAH. A REFORMER'S
SCHOOLING. THE CHURCH AND SOCIAL EVILS. 'OVER AGAINST HIS HOUSE'. ...
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The Church and Social Evils
... THE BOOK OF NEHEMIAH THE CHURCH AND SOCIAL EVILS. 'It came to pass, when
I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned ...
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Of the Cause of the Incarnation of Christ.
... [580] Nehemiah 9:26. The book of Nehemiah is called by the Greek writers the second
book of Ezra. The words quoted are spoken by the Levites. [581] Kings xix. ...
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