Nehemiah On Building The Wall Of Jerusalem

Each one contributes to its building.

But, there is always opposition.

Just when you are taught to love your enemies. Read this chapter in plain words to find out the truth about it.

“Building Jerusalem’s Wall”

“Prayer Of Nehemiah”

It happened when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall that he became enraged and he grew extremely angry, and he ridiculed the Jews.
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Tobiah the Ammonite was next to him, and he said, “Even that which they build, if [even] a fox were to go up, he would breach their stone wall!”
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“Hear, our God, that we are an object of scorn! Return their humiliation upon their own heads! Make them despoiled in a land of captivity!
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Do not cover up their sins, nor let their transgressions be eradicated from before You, for they have reviled the builders.”
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Yet we built the wall. When the entire wall was joined halfway, the people were heartened to accomplish!
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1 Then Eliashib the High Priest and his brothers the priests arose and built the Sheep Gate; they hallowed it and erected its doors, and until the Tower of the Hundred they hallowed it, until the Tower of Hananel.
2 And next to it the men of Jericho built, and next to it Zaccur the son of Imri built.
3 And the sons of Hassenaah built the Fish Gate; they laid its beams and erected its doors, its locks, and its bolts.
4 And next to them, Meremoth the son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz repaired, and next to them Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabel repaired, and next to them Zadok the son of Baana repaired.
5 And next to them, the Tekoites repaired, but their mighty men did not bring their neck into the service of their lord.
6 And Joiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam the son of Besodiah repaired the gate of the old [city]; they laid its beams and erected its doors, its locks, and its bolts.
7 And next to them Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, [and] the men of Gibeon and Mizpah repaired, and next to him a throne for the governor of the land beyond the river.
8 Next to him Uziel the son of Haraiah, [of the] goldsmiths, repaired, and next to him, Hananiah the son of the perfumers repaired, and they filled Jerusalem until the broad wall.
9 And next to them, Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of half the district of Jerusalem repaired.
10 And next to them Jedaiah the son of Harumaph repaired and [it was] opposite his house, and next to him Hattush the son of Hashabneiah repaired.
11 Malkijah the son of Harim and Hashub the son of Pahath- Moab repaired a second measure, and [also] the Tower of the Furnaces.
12 Next to him Shallum the son of Hallohesh, the ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, he and his daughters repaired.
13 Hanun and the dwellers of Zanoah repaired the Gate of the Valley; they built it, and they erected its doors, its locks, and its bolts, and a thousand cubits in the wall until the Dung Gate.
14 Malkijah the son of Rechab, the prince of the district of Beth Hakkerem, repaired the Dung Gate; he built it and erected its doors, its locks, and its bolts.
15 And Shallun, the son of Kol Hozeh, the ruler of the district of Mizpah, repaired the Gate of the Fountain; he built it and roofed it and erected its doors, its locks, and its bolts, and the wall of the pool of Shelah toward the king’s garden and until the steps descending from the City of David.
16 After him Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of half the district of Beth Zur, repaired until opposite the sepulchers of David and until the [man-]made pool and until the house of the mighty men.
17 After him the Levites, Rehum the son of Bani repaired; next to him Hashabiah, the ruler of half the district of Keilah, repaired for his district.
18 After him their brothers repaired, Bawai the son of Henadad, the ruler of half the district of Keilah.
19 And Ezer the son of Jeshua, the ruler of Mizpah, repaired next to him a second measure, opposite the ascent to the armory, at the corner.
20 After him, Baruch the son of Zaccai repaired a second measure from the corner until the entrance to the house of Eliashib the High Priest.
21 After him Meremoth the son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz repaired a second measure from the entrance of the house of Eliashib until the end of the house of Eliashib.
22 And after him the priests, the men of the plain, repaired.
23 And after it, Benjamin and Hishub repaired opposite their house; after him Azariah the son of Maaseiah, the son of Ananiah repaired next to his house.
24 After him Binnui the son of Henadad repaired a second measure from the house of Azariah until the corner and until the tower.
25 Palal the son of Uzai [built] from opposite the corner and the tower that juts out of the upper house of the king, which is near the prison yard; after him was Pedaiah the son of Parosh.
26 And the Nethinites dwelt in the Ophel until opposite the Water Gate to the east and the tower that juts out.
27 After him the Tekoites repaired a second measure, from opposite the great tower that juts out until the wall of the Ophel.
28 Above the Gate of the Horses the priests repaired, each one opposite his house.
29 After him Zadok the son of Immer repaired opposite his house, and after him Shemaiah the son of Shechaniah, the guardian of the Eastern Gate, repaired.
30 After him Hananiah the son of Shelemiah and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph repaired a second measure; after him Meshullam the son of Berechiah repaired opposite his chamber.
31 After him Malkijah the son of Hatzorefi repaired until the house of the Nethinites and the peddlers, opposite the Hammifkad Gate, and until the ascent to the tower.
32 And between the ascent to the tower and the Sheep Gate, the smiths and the peddlers repaired.
33 And it came to pass when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he became wroth and was very angry, and he ridiculed the Jews.
34 And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and he said, “What are the feeble Jews doing? Will they let them? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in one day? Will they revive the stones from the heaps of dust, for they are burnt?”
35 And Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, “Even what they build, if a fox comes up and breaches the wall of their stones..?”
36 “Hearken, our God, for we have been despised, and return their reproach upon their head and cause them to be despised in a land of captivity.
37 And do not conceal their iniquity and do not erase their sin from before You, for they have provoked the builders.”
38 But we built the wall, and the entire wall was built to its half, and the people had a desire to build.