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THE PRAYER of JABEZ

Letting Go of Your Past

Be Fruitful

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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NEH.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now the men and their wives raised a great outcry against their fellow Jews. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NEH.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Some were saying, &#8220;We and our sons and daughters are numerous; in order for us to eat and stay alive, we must get grain.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NEH.5.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NEH.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Others were saying, &#8220;We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards and our homes to get grain during the famine.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NEH.5.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NEH.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Still others were saying, &#8220;We have had to borrow money to pay the king&#8217;s tax on our fields and vineyards. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NEH.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Although we are of the same flesh and blood as our fellow Jews and though our children are as good as theirs, yet we have to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but we are powerless, because our fields and our vineyards belong to others.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NEH.5.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NEH.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When I heard their outcry and these charges, I was very angry. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NEH.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I pondered them in my mind and then accused the nobles and officials. I told them, &#8220;You are charging your own people interest!&#8221; So I called together a large meeting to deal with them </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NEH.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">and said: &#8220;As far as possible, we have bought back our fellow Jews who were sold to the Gentiles. Now you are selling your own people, only for them to be sold back to us!&#8221; They kept quiet, because they could find nothing to say.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NEH.5.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NEH.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">So I continued, &#8220;What you are doing is not right. Shouldn&#8217;t you walk in the fear of our God to avoid the reproach of our Gentile enemies? </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NEH.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I and my brothers and my men are also lending the people money and grain. But let us stop charging interest! </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NEH.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Give back to them immediately their fields, vineyards, olive groves and houses, and also the interest you are charging them&#8212;one percent of the money, grain, new wine and olive oil.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NEH.5.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NEH.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;We will give it back,&#8221; they said. &#8220;And we will not demand anything more from them. We will do as you say.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NEH.5.12"><span class="content">Then I summoned the priests and made the nobles and officials take an oath to do what they had promised. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NEH.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I also shook out the folds of my robe and said, &#8220;In this way may God shake out of their house and possessions anyone who does not keep this promise. So may such a person be shaken out and emptied!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NEH.5.13"><span class="content">At this the whole assembly said, &#8220;Amen,&#8221; and praised the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. And the people did as they had promised.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NEH.5.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NEH.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Moreover, from the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, until his thirty-second year&#8212;twelve years&#8212;neither I nor my brothers ate the food allotted to the governor. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NEH.5.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But the earlier governors&#8212;those preceding me&#8212;placed a heavy burden on the people and took forty shekels</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:15 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 1 pound or about 460 grams</span></span></span><span class="content"> of silver from them in addition to food and wine. Their assistants also lorded it over the people. But out of reverence for God I did not act like that. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NEH.5.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Instead, I devoted myself to the work on this wall. All my men were assembled there for the work; we</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:16 </span><span class="ft">Most Hebrew manuscripts; some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac </span><span class="fqa">I</span></span></span><span class="content"> did not acquire any land.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NEH.5.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NEH.5.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Furthermore, a hundred and fifty Jews and officials ate at my table, as well as those who came to us from the surrounding nations. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NEH.5.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Each day one ox, six choice sheep and some poultry were prepared for me, and every ten days an abundant supply of wine of all kinds. In spite of all this, I never demanded the food allotted to the governor, because the demands were heavy on these people.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NEH.5.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NEH.5.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Remember me with favor, my God, for all I have done for these people.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NEH.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When word came to Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab and the rest of our enemies that I had rebuilt the wall and not a gap was left in it&#8212;though up to that time I had not set the doors in the gates&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NEH.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Sanballat and Geshem sent me this message: &#8220;Come, let us meet together in one of the villages</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">in Kephirim</span></span></span><span class="content"> on the plain of Ono.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NEH.6.2"><span class="content">But they were scheming to harm me; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NEH.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">so I sent messengers to them with this reply: &#8220;I am carrying on a great project and cannot go down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and go down to you?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NEH.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Four times they sent me the same message, and each time I gave them the same answer.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NEH.6.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NEH.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then, the fifth time, Sanballat sent his aide to me with the same message, and in his hand was an unsealed letter </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NEH.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">in which was written:</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NEH.6.6"><span class="content">&#8220;It is reported among the nations&#8212;and Geshem</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:6 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Gashmu, </span><span class="ft">a variant of </span><span class="fq">Geshem</span></span></span><span class="content"> says it is true&#8212;that you and the Jews are plotting to revolt, and therefore you are building the wall. Moreover, according to these reports you are about to become their king </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NEH.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">and have even appointed prophets to make this proclamation about you in Jerusalem: &#8216;There is a king in Judah!&#8217; Now this report will get back to the king; so come, let us meet together.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NEH.6.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NEH.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I sent him this reply: &#8220;Nothing like what you are saying is happening; you are just making it up out of your head.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NEH.6.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NEH.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">They were all trying to frighten us, thinking, &#8220;Their hands will get too weak for the work, and it will not be completed.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NEH.6.9"><span class="content">But I prayed, &#8220;Now strengthen my hands.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NEH.6.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NEH.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">One day I went to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was shut in at his home. He said, &#8220;Let us meet in the house of God, inside the temple, and let us close the temple doors, because men are coming to kill you&#8212;by night they are coming to kill you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NEH.6.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NEH.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But I said, &#8220;Should a man like me run away? Or should someone like me go into the temple to save his life? I will not go!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NEH.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I realized that God had not sent him, but that he had prophesied against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NEH.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">He had been hired to intimidate me so that I would commit a sin by doing this, and then they would give me a bad name to discredit me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NEH.6.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NEH.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Remember Tobiah and Sanballat, my God, because of what they have done; remember also the prophet Noadiah and how she and the rest of the prophets have been trying to intimidate me. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NEH.6.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth of Elul, in fifty-two days.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Opposition to the Completed Wall</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NEH.6.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NEH.6.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">When all our enemies heard about this, all the surrounding nations were afraid and lost their self-confidence, because they realized that this work had been done with the help of our God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NEH.6.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NEH.6.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Also, in those days the nobles of Judah were sending many letters to Tobiah, and replies from Tobiah kept coming to them. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NEH.6.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For many in Judah were under oath to him, since he was son-in-law to Shekaniah son of Arah, and his son Jehohanan had married the daughter of Meshullam son of Berekiah. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NEH.6.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Moreover, they kept reporting to me his good deeds and then telling him what I said. And Tobiah sent letters to intimidate me.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NEH.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After the wall had been rebuilt and I had set the doors in place, the gatekeepers, the musicians and the Levites were appointed. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NEH.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I put in charge of Jerusalem my brother Hanani, along with Hananiah the commander of the citadel, because he was a man of integrity and feared God more than most people do. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NEH.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I said to them, &#8220;The gates of Jerusalem are not to be opened until the sun is hot. While the gatekeepers are still on duty, have them shut the doors and bar them. Also appoint residents of Jerusalem as guards, some at their posts and some near their own houses.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The List of the Exiles Who Returned</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NEH.7.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NEH.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Now the city was large and spacious, but there were few people in it, and the houses had not yet been rebuilt. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NEH.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">So my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles, the officials and the common people for registration by families. I found the genealogical record of those who had been the first to return. This is what I found written there:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NEH.7.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NEH.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">These are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken captive (they returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NEH.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">in company with Zerubbabel, Joshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum and Baanah):</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="mi"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NEH.7.7"><span class="content">The list of the men of Israel:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NEH.7.25"><span class="content">  </span><span class="content">  </span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="NEH.7.38"><span class="content">  </span><span class="content">  </span></span></div><div class="mi"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="NEH.7.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="NEH.7.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">The priests:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="NEH.7.42"><span class="content">  </span><span class="content">  </span></span></div><div class="mi"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="NEH.7.42"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="NEH.7.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">The Levites:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="NEH.7.43"><span class="content">  </span><span class="content">  </span></span></div><div class="mi"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="NEH.7.43"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="NEH.7.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">The musicians:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="NEH.7.44"><span class="content">  </span><span class="content">  </span></span></div><div class="mi"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="NEH.7.44"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="NEH.7.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">The gatekeepers:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="NEH.7.45"><span class="content">  </span><span class="content">  </span></span></div><div class="mi"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="NEH.7.45"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="NEH.7.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">The temple servants:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v56" data-usfm="NEH.7.56"><span class="content">  </span><span class="content">  </span></span></div><div class="mi"><span class="verse v56" data-usfm="NEH.7.56"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v57" data-usfm="NEH.7.57"><span class="label">57</span><span class="content">The descendants of the servants of Solomon:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v59" data-usfm="NEH.7.59"><span class="content">  </span><span class="content">  </span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v60" data-usfm="NEH.7.60"><span class="content">  </span><span class="content">  </span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v60" data-usfm="NEH.7.60"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v61" data-usfm="NEH.7.61"><span class="label">61</span><span class="content">The following came up from the towns of Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Kerub, Addon and Immer, but they could not show that their families were descended from Israel:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v62" data-usfm="NEH.7.62"><span class="content">  </span><span class="content">  </span></span></div><div class="mi"><span class="verse v62" data-usfm="NEH.7.62"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v63" data-usfm="NEH.7.63"><span class="label">63</span><span class="content">And from among the priests:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v63" data-usfm="NEH.7.63"><span class="content">  </span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v64" data-usfm="NEH.7.64"><span class="label">64</span><span class="content">These searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean. </span></span><span class="verse v65" data-usfm="NEH.7.65"><span class="label">65</span><span class="content">The governor, therefore, ordered them not to eat any of the most sacred food until there should be a priest ministering with the Urim and Thummim.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v65" data-usfm="NEH.7.65"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v66" data-usfm="NEH.7.66"><span class="label">66</span><span class="content">The whole company numbered 42,360, </span></span><span class="verse v67" data-usfm="NEH.7.67"><span class="label">67</span><span class="content">besides their 7,337 male and female slaves; and they also had 245 male and female singers. </span></span><span class="verse v68" data-usfm="NEH.7.68"><span class="label">68</span><span class="content">There were 736 horses, 245 mules,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:68 </span><span class="ft">Some Hebrew manuscripts (see also Ezra 2:66); most Hebrew manuscripts do not have this verse.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v69" data-usfm="NEH.7.69"><span class="label">69</span><span class="content">435 camels and 6,720 donkeys.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v69" data-usfm="NEH.7.69"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v70" data-usfm="NEH.7.70"><span class="label">70</span><span class="content">Some of the heads of the families contributed to the work. The governor gave to the treasury 1,000 darics</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:70 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 19 pounds or about 8.4 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> of gold, 50 bowls and 530 garments for priests. </span></span><span class="verse v71" data-usfm="NEH.7.71"><span class="label">71</span><span class="content">Some of the heads of the families gave to the treasury for the work 20,000 darics</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:71 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 375 pounds or about 170 kilograms; also in verse 72</span></span></span><span class="content"> of gold and 2,200 minas</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:71 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 1 1/3 tons or about 1.2 metric tons</span></span></span><span class="content"> of silver. </span></span><span class="verse v72" data-usfm="NEH.7.72"><span class="label">72</span><span class="content">The total given by the rest of the people was 20,000 darics of gold, 2,000 minas</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:72 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 1 1/4 tons or about 1.1 metric tons</span></span></span><span class="content"> of silver and 67 garments for priests.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v72" data-usfm="NEH.7.72"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v73" data-usfm="NEH.7.73"><span class="label">73</span><span class="content">The priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the musicians and the temple servants, along with certain of the people and the rest of the Israelites, settled in their own towns.</span></span></div>
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