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BibleGateway: Nehemiah 7 ESV Text: Nehemiah 7 Nehemiah 7 (Listen) 7:1 Now when the wall had been built and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed, 2 I gave my brother Hanani and Hananiah the governor of the castle charge over Jerusalem, for he was a more […]

BibleGateway: Nehemiah 6 ESV Text: Nehemiah 6 Nehemiah 6 (Listen) Conspiracy Against Nehemiah 6:1 Now when Sanballat and Tobiah and Geshem the Arab and the rest of our enemies heard that I had built the wall and that there was no breach left in it (although up to that time I had not set up the […]

BibleGateway: Nehemiah 5 ESV Text: Nehemiah 5 Nehemiah 5 (Listen) Nehemiah Stops Oppression of the Poor 5:1 Now there arose a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brothers. 2 For there were those who said, “With our sons and our daughters, we are many. So let us get grain, that we […]

BibleGateway: Nehemiah 4 ESV Text: Nehemiah 4 Nehemiah 4 (Listen) Opposition to the Work 4:1 1 Now when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry and greatly enraged, and he jeered at the Jews. 2 And he said in the presence of his brothers and of the army of Samaria, “What are these […]

BibleGateway: Nehemiah 3 ESV Text: Nehemiah 3 Nehemiah 3 (Listen) Rebuilding the Wall 3:1 Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the Sheep Gate. They consecrated it and set its doors. They consecrated it as far as the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Tower of […]

BibleGateway: Nehemiah 2 ESV Text: Nehemiah 2 Nehemiah 2 (Listen) Nehemiah Sent to Judah 2:1 In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was before him, I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad in his presence. 2 And the king said […]

BibleGateway: Nehemiah 1 ESV Text: Nehemiah 1 Nehemiah 1 (Listen) Report from Jerusalem 1:1 The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah. Now it happened in the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Susa the citadel, 2 that Hanani, one of my brothers, came with certain men from Judah. And I asked […]

BibleGateway: Ezra 10 ESV Text: Ezra 10 Ezra 10 (Listen) The People Confess Their Sin 10:1 While Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children, gathered to him out of Israel, for the people wept bitterly. 2 And Shecaniah the son […]

BibleGateway: Ezra 9 ESV Text: Ezra 9 Ezra 9 (Listen) Ezra Prays About Intermarriage 9:1 After these things had been done, the officials approached me and said, “The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands with their abominations, from the Canaanites, the Hittites, the […]

BibleGateway: Ezra 8 ESV Text: Ezra 8 Ezra 8 (Listen) Genealogy of Those Who Returned with Ezra 8:1 These are the heads of their fathers’ houses, and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylonia, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king: 2 Of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom. Of the sons […]

BibleGateway: Ezra 7 ESV Text: Ezra 7 Ezra 7 (Listen) Ezra Sent to Teach the People 7:1 Now after this, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, son of Azariah, son of Hilkiah, 2 son of Shallum, son of Zadok, son of Ahitub, 3 son of Amariah, son of Azariah, son of … … Continue reading →

BibleGateway: Ezra 6 ESV Text: Ezra 6 Ezra 6 (Listen) The Decree of Darius 6:1 Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in Babylonia, in the house of the archives where the documents were stored. 2 And in Ecbatana, the citadel that is in the province of Media, a scroll was found on […]

BibleGateway: Ezra 5 ESV Text: Ezra 5 Ezra 5 (Listen) Rebuilding Begins Anew 5:1 Now the prophets, Haggai and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem, in the name of the God of Israel who was over them. 2 Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son […]

BibleGateway: Ezra 4 ESV Text: Ezra 4 Ezra 4 (Listen) Adversaries Oppose the Rebuilding 4:1 Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the returned exiles were building a temple to the LORD, the God of Israel, 2 they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of fathers’ houses and said to them, “Let us build with […]

BibleGateway: Ezra 3 ESV Text: Ezra 3 Ezra 3 (Listen) Rebuilding the Altar 3:1 When the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the towns, the people gathered as one man to Jerusalem. 2 Then arose Jeshua the son of Jozadak, with his fellow priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel with his kinsmen, […]

BibleGateway: Ezra 2 ESV Text: Ezra 2 Ezra 2 (Listen) The Exiles Return 2:1 Now these were the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of those exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried captive to Babylonia. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town. 2 They came […]

BibleGateway: Ezra 1 ESV Text: Ezra 1 Ezra 1 (Listen) The Proclamation of Cyrus 1:1 In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout […]

BibleGateway: Job 8 ESV Text: Job 8 Job 8 (Listen) Bildad Speaks: Job Should Repent 8:1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said: 2   “How long will you say these things,    and the words of your mouth be a great wind?3   Does God pervert justice?    Or does the Almighty pervert the right?4   If your childre...

BibleGateway: Job 7 ESV Text: Job 7 Job 7 (Listen) Job Continues: My Life Has No Hope 7:1   “Has not man a hard service on earth,    and are not his days like the days of a hired hand?2   Like a slave who longs for the shadow,    and like a hired hand who looks for his wages,3   so I am allotted … … Co...

BibleGateway: Job 6 ESV Text: Job 6 Job 6 (Listen) Job Replies: My Complaint Is Just 6:1 Then Job answered and said: 2   “Oh that my vexation were weighed,    and all my calamity laid in the balances!3   For then it would be heavier than the sand of the sea;    therefore my words have been rash.4   For the ar...

BibleGateway: Job 5 ESV Text: Job 5 Job 5 (Listen) 5:1   “Call now; is there anyone who will answer you?    To which of the holy ones will you turn?2   Surely vexation kills the fool,    and jealousy slays the simple.3   I have seen the fool taking root,    but suddenly I cursed his dwelling.4&...

BibleGateway: Job 4 ESV Text: Job 4 Job 4 (Listen) Eliphaz Speaks: The Innocent Prosper 4:1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: 2   “If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient?    Yet who can keep from speaking?3   Behold, you have instructed many,    and you have strengthened the weak hands.4 &#16...

BibleGateway: Job 3 ESV Text: Job 3 Job 3 (Listen) Job Laments His Birth 3:1 After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. 2 And Job said: 3   “Let the day perish on which I was born,    and the night that said,    ‘A man is conceived.’4   Let that day be darkness!    May God abov...

BibleGateway: Leviticus 25 ESV Text: Leviticus 25 Leviticus 25 (Listen) The Sabbath Year 25:1 The LORD spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying, 2 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land that I give you, the land shall keep a Sabbath to the LORD. 3 For six years you […]

BibleGateway: Leviticus 24 ESV Text: Leviticus 24 Leviticus 24 (Listen) The Lamps 24:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Command the people of Israel to bring you pure oil from beaten olives for the lamp, that a light may be kept burning regularly. 3 Outside the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, Aaron shall […]