Nehemiah.txt

Rebuilding the walls

Rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem and Reforming the People

• I. Nehemiah's First Term of Governship (1-12)
• II. Nehemiah's Second Term of Governship (13)

1 Nehemiah's prayer

2 Artaxerxes sends Nehemiah to Jerusalem

3-6 Nehemiah rebuilds the wall amidst opposition

• 8:4-8 Presentation of the Law by Ezra to the people "And they read from the book, from the law of God, translating to give the sense so that they understood the reading." (v. 8)
• "And they read from the book, from the law of God, translating to give the sense so that they understood the reading." (v. 8)

• Artaxerxes - Persian King who was the son of Xerxes I and Vashti; stepson of Esther.
• He allowed the Jews to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem under the leadership of Nehemiah

Nehemiah - Artaxerxes' cupbearer, Governor of Judea, Supervisor of construction.

Sanballat - influential Samaritan; sought to end construction on the walls; sought to assassinate Nehemiah.

Ezra - Great reformer, expert in the Law. He had the leadership in Israel put away their foreign wives.