3/23/2023 0 Comments Nehemiah prayer against enemies![]() ![]() Now these are thy servants and thy people, whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong hand. Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations:īut if ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there. We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses. ![]() ![]() He was remembered warmly in the books of Ezra and Nehemiah because he authorized their revival of Judaism. Important cultural exchanges occurred between Greece and Persia during Artaxerxes’ reign. The fleet won a victory, but the treaty negotiated by Callias was generally favorable to Persia. The Athenians sent a fleet under Cimon to aid a rebellion of Cyprus against Persian rule. The revolt of Egypt, aided by the Athenians, was put down (c.455 B.C.) after years of fighting, and Bactria was pacified. The later weakness of the Persian Empire is commonly traced to the reign of Artaxerxes, and there were many uprisings in the provinces. Artaxerxes I was king of ancient Persia (464-425 B.C.), of the dynasty of the Achaemenis.Īrtaxerxes is the Greek form of “Ardashir the Persian.” He succeeded his father, Xerxes I, in whose assassination he had no part. Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father’s house have sinned. ![]() That Hanani, one of my brethren, came, he and certain men of Judah and I asked them concerning the Jews that had escaped, which were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.Īnd they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.Īnd it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,Īnd said, I beseech thee, O Lord God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments: And it came to pass in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace, “The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. Nehemiah thereafter received the king’s commission to return to Jersualem as governor of Judea. Nehemiah was serving in the palace of king Artaxerxes when Nehemiah received the news about Jerusalem, how “The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.” The city of Shushan/Susa, or more specifically, the royal palace there, is known to Bible History as the location where Nehemiah, Esther and Daniel were all situated. various Bible translations render the city name as either Shushan or Susa) was a capital of Elam, in what is today western Iran, about 150 miles north of the Persian Gulf. Wow, the people really changed, and I think they even killed all the men that had strange wives.īut can they keep it up? The Palace of Shushan ![]()
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