A Prayer Prayed

Nehemiah, Sanballat, Tobiah, and those with them:

But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews. And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned? Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall. Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity: And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders. So built we the wall; and the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work. But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth, And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it. Nevertheless, we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.-Nehemiah 4:1-9***King Jehoiakim (Eliakim) was the 17th king to rule Judah, the southern nation in the Promised Land. During Jehoiakim's 11-year reign, the Babylonians (Chaldeans) invaded Judah and Jerusalem, the royal city, 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 to rule Judah. During Jehoiachin's 3-month reign, the Babylonians took more prominent Israelites, including Jehoiachin, his wives and mothers, to Babylon. During the 11th year of the reign of Jehoiakim's brother King 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. After King Cyrus, ruler of the Persian Empire, conquered Babylon, Cyrus proclaimed that Israelites living throughout the empire could return to Jerusalem and build a temple. The temple of the Lord that was built by Jehoiakim's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather King Solomon, the 3rd king to reign over all of the Israelites in the Promised Land, was looted and burned and burned by the Babylonians. Seven months after returning to Jerusalem, the Israelites built an altar and sacrificed burnt offerings to the Lord God. During the 2nd year of their return to Jerusalem, the Israelites completed the foundation of the temple. However, enemies of the Israelites successfully worked against the building efforts. Another group of enemies sent an instigative letter to King Artaxerxes, reigning ruler of the Persian Empire. Artaxerxes replied that the Israelites be commanded to stop building. Years thereafter, different enemies sent an instigative letter to King Darius during his reign over the Persian Empire. Darius commanded that a search be conducted, and that the enemies responsible for writing and sending the letter supply the Israelites with specific items. Thus, the Israelites finished building the temple. Nehemiah was an Israelite living in the Persian Empire and working as a cupbearer for Artaxerxes. After Nehemiah received information regarding Jerusalem and the Israelites therein, Nehemiah cried, mourned, fasted, and Nehamiah prayed to the Lord God. After answering Artaxerxes, and praying to the Lord God, and making a request of Artaxerxes, Nehemiah was given permission, and the accompaniment of a notable military unit, to go to Jerusalem and build. The divinely inspired Scriptures of the Holy Bible reveal that 52 days after beginning their project, the Israelites finished building the gates and wall around Jerusalem, despite the attempts of several enemies. Over 400 years after Nehemiah began serving as governor while in Judah, 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 in Bethlehem, approximately 6 miles from Jerusalem, into the tribe of Judah, the tribe of Solomon, and all of the kings who reigned in Jerusalem, to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin.-Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Numbers 20:1-29, 27:12-23, Deuteronomy 31:1-30, 32:44-52, 34:1-12, Joshua 1:1-2:24, 23:1-24:33, Judges 1:1-2:23, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 10:1-29:30, 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Isaiah 44:1-45:25, Jeremiah 39:1-18, 52:1-34, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26

                                        

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