Nehemiah
northern nation of Israel. During Pekah's 20-year reign, the Assyrians invaded the kingdom and King Tiglath-pileser, ruler of Assyria, began taking Israelites captive. In the 9th year of the reign of King Hoshea, the 19th king to rule the northern nation, the Assyrians conquered Samaria, according to the will of the Lord God, due to the idolatry and other wickedness of the Israelites. Rehoboam's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson Manasseh was the 13th king to rule Judah. The divinely inspired Scriptures of the Holy Bible reveal that Manasseh was more wicked than the idol worshiping inhabitants who lived in the land before the Israelites began living throughout Canaan. The Lord God gave the prophets warnings for Manasseh and all the Israelites. Manasseh's great-grandson Jehoiakim (Eliakim) was the 17th king to rule Judah. During Jehoiakim's 11-year reign, the Babylonians (Chaldeans) invaded Judah and Jerusalem and King Nebuchadnezzar, ruler of Babylon, began looting the temple of the Lord. Jehoiachin (Jeconiah/Coniah), the son born to Jehoiakim and Nehushta, was the 18th king. During Jehoiachin's 3-month reign, the Babylonians took more prominent Israelites, including Jehoiachin, his wives and mother, to Babylon. During the 11th year of the reign of Jehoiakim's brother Zedekiah (Mattaniah), the 19th king to rule Judah, the Babylonians conquered Jerusalem, according to the will of the Lord God, due to the idolatry and other wickedness of the Israelites. The Babylonians destroyed the walls around Jerusalem, and burned the temple, the palace and other buildings before taking more Israelites to Babylon. After King Cyrus, ruler of the Persian Empire, conquered Babylon, he allowed the Israelites to return to Judah and Jerusalem. Years thereafter, King Artaxerxes was ruling the Persian Empire and Nehemiah, an Israelite, was his cupbearer. When Nehemiah learned about the condition of Jerusalem's walls and gates, Nehemiah prayed to the Lord God, and answered Artaxerxes, and requested and received permission and aid from Artaxerxes to go to Jerusalem. In Jerusalem, Nehemiah helped bring the Israelites back to the Lord God, and the Ten Commandments, and the judgments, statutes and laws of the Lord God. At least 400 years after the Israelites made a proclamation to the Lord God, and made, wrote and sealed a covenant, Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was born. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born into the tribe of Judah, the tribe of Judah's kings, to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin.-Genesis, Exodus, Numbers 20:1-29, 27:12-23, Deuteronomy 31:1-30, 32:44-52, 34:1-12, Joshua 1:1-4:24, 23:1-24:33, Judges 1:1-2:23, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 6:1-81, 8:1-40, 9:35-29:30, 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Jeremiah 21:1-10, 39:1-18, 52:1-34, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26
Reference Scriptures
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.-Exodus 20:8-11
Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;-Jeremiah 17:21...But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.-Jeremiah 7:27
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