[:en]SCRIPTURE:  NEHEMIAH 5 “I and my brothers and my men are also lending the people money and grain.  But let the exacting of usury stop!” (Nehemiah 5:10) NEHEMIAH HELPS THE POOR (vs. 1-19) There was a great outcry among the poor Jewish brothers.  Some had mortgaged their fields and vineyards and homes to get grain. … Continue reading [:en]Our Daily Verse (8/24/20)[:]

[:en]SCRIPTURE:  NEHAMIAH 4 “Hear us, O our God, for we are despised.  Turn their insults back on their own heads.  Give them over as a plunder in a land of captivity” (Nehemiah 4:4) “Don’t be afraid of them.  Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome and fight for your brothers, your sons and your… Continue reading [:en]Our Daily Verse (8/23/20)[:]

[:en]SCRIPTURE:  NEHEMIAH 3 “Eliashib the high priest and his fellow priests went to work and rebuilt the Sheep Gate.  They dedicated it and set its doors in place, building as far as the Tower of the Hundred, which they dedicate, and as far as the Tower of Hananel” (Nehemiah 3:1) BUILDERS OF THE WALL (vs.… Continue reading [:en]Our Daily Verse (8/22/20)[:]

[:en]SCRIPTURE:   NEHEMIAH 2 “The God of heaven will give us success.  We his servants will start rebuilding, but as for you, you have no share in Jerusalem or any claim or historic right to it” (Nehemiah 2:20) ARTAXERXES SENDS NEHEMIAH TO JERUSALEM (vs. 1-10) Nehemiah had been praying to God for the king to grant… Continue reading [:en]Our Daily Verse 8/21/20[:]

[:en]SCRIPTURE:  NEHEMIAH 1 “If you are unfaithful,  I will scatter you among the nations, but if you return to me and obey my commands, then even if you exiled people are at the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there to bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for my… Continue reading [:en]Our Daily Verse (8/20/20)[:]

[:en]SCRIPTURE:  EZRA 10 Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them. “You have been unfaithful; you have married foreign women adding to Israel’s guilt.  Now make confessions to the Lord, the God of your fathers and do his will.  Separate yourselves from the peoples around you and from your foreign wives” (Ezra 10:10-11)… Continue reading [:en]Our Daily Verse (8/19/20)[:]

[:en]SCRIPTURE:  EZRA 9 “Therefore, do not give your daughters in marriages to their sons or take their daughters for your sons.  Do not seek a treaty of friendship with them at any time, that you may be strong and eat the good things of the land and leave it to your children as an everlasting… Continue reading [:en]Our Daily Verse (8/18/20)[:]

[:en]SCRIPTURE:  EZRA 8 “The gracious hand of our God is on everyone who looks to him, but his great anger is against all who forsake him” (Ezra 8:22) LIST OF THE FAMILY HEADS RETURNING WITH EZRA (vs. 1-14) The names of the families and the men who accompanied Ezra on his trip to Jerusalem were… Continue reading [:en]Our Daily Verse (8/17/20)[:]

[:en]SCRIPTURE:  EZRA 7 “For Ezra had devoted himself to the study and observance of the law of the lord and to teaching its decrees and laws in Israel (Ezra 7:10)” “Because the hand of the Lord my God was on me, I took courage and gathered leading men from Israel to go up with me”… Continue reading [:en]Our Daily Verse (8/16/20)[:]

[:en]SCRIPTURE:  EZRA 6 “So, the elders of the Jews continued to build and prosper under the preaching of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah, a descendant of Iddo.  They finished building the temple according to the command of the God of Israel and the decrees of Cyrus, Darius and Artaxerxes, kings of Persia” (Ezra 6:14-15) THE… Continue reading [:en]Our Daily Verse (8/15/20)[:]