Good morning everyone and Happy Sabbath to you all. Neh 5:1-7:73 And there was a great outcry of the people and their wives against their brothers, the Yehuḏim. (2) And there were some who were saying, “We, our sons, and our daughters are many. Let us get grain for them, and eat, and live.” (3) And there were some who were saying, “We have mortgaged our lands and vineyards and houses. Let us buy grain because of the scarcity of food.” (4) And there were those who were saying, “We have borrowed silver for the sovereign’s tax on our lands and vineyards. (5) “And now our flesh is like the flesh of our brothers, our children like their children. And see, we are subjecting our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been subjected, and there is no power in our hands, for other men have our lands and vineyards.” (6) And it was very displeasing to me when I heard their outcry and these words. (7) And my heart ruled over me, and I strove with the nobles and with the deputy rulers, and said to them, “You are exacting interest, each one from his brother.” And I called a great assembly against them, (8) and said to them, “According to our ability we have redeemed our brothers, the Yehuḏim, who were sold to the gentiles. And you even sell your brothers! Or should they be sold to us?” And they were silent and found not a word to say. (9) I also said, “What you are doing is not good. Should you not walk in the fear of our Elohim because of the reproach of the gentiles, our enemies? (10) “And also, I, my brothers and my servants, am lending them silver and grain. Please, let us leave off this interest! (11) “Please, give back to them, even today, their lands, their vineyards, their olive-trees, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the silver and of the grain, and of the new wine, and of the oil, that you have taken from them.” (12) And they said, “Let us give it back, and ask no more from them, we do as you say.” Then I called the priests, and made them swear to do according to this word. (13) I also shook out the fold of my garment and said, “Let Elohim in this way shake out each man from his house, and from his property, who does not do this word, even to be thus shaken out and emptied.” And all the assembly said, “Amĕn!” and praised יהוה. And the people did according to this word. (14) Also, from the day I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Yehuḏah, from the twentieth year until the thirty-second year of Sovereign Artaḥshashta, twelve years, neither I nor my brothers ate the governor’s food. (15) But the former governors who were before me laid burdens on the people, and took from them bread and wine, besides forty sheqels of silver. Their servants also oppressed the people, but I did not do so, because of the fear of Elohim. (16) And I also applied myself to the work on this wall. We did not buy any land. And all my servants were gathered there for the work. (17) And at my table were one hundred and fifty of the Yehuḏim and deputy rulers, besides those who came to us from the nations around us. (18) And that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six choice sheep, and birds were prepared for me, and once every ten days plenty of all kinds of wine. And in spite of this I did not seek the governor’s food, because the bondage was heavy on this people. (19) O my Elohim, remember me for the good – all that I have done for this people. (6:1) And it came to be when Sanballat, and Toḇiyah, and Geshem the Araḇ, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall, and that there were no breaks left in it – though at that time I had not set up the doors in the gates – (2) that Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come, let us meet together in the villages in the plain of Ono.” But they were planning to do evil to me. (3) So I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work, and I am unable to come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and come down to you?” (4) However, they sent me the same word four times, and I answered them the same word. (5) Then Sanballat sent his servant to me with an open letter in his hand, the same word, the fifth time. (6) In it was written: Among the nations it has been heard, and Gashmu is saying, that you and the Yehuḏim are planning to rebel, therefore you are rebuilding the wall, and you are to be their sovereign – according to these words. (7) And you have also appointed prophets to proclaim concerning you at Yerushalayim, saying, ‘A sovereign is in Yehuḏah!’ And now these words are heard by the sovereign. Therefore come now, and let us take counsel together. (8) Then I sent to him, saying, “There are no such matters done as you are saying, but you are inventing them in your own heart.” (9) For all of them were making us afraid, saying, “Let their hands slacken for the work, and it not be done.” But now, make my hands strong. (10) And when I came to the house of Shemayah son of Delayah, son of Mehĕtaḇ’ĕl, who was restrained, he said, “Let us meet together in the House of Elohim, inside the Hĕḵal, and let us close the doors of the Hĕḵal, for they are coming to slay you – by night they are coming to slay you.” (11) And I said, “Should a man like me flee? And who is there like me who would go into the Hĕḵal to save his life? I do not go in!” (12) And see, I perceived that Elohim had not sent him, but that he spoke this prophecy against me because Toḇiyah and Sanballat had hired him – (13) because he was a hireling – that I should be afraid, and do so, and shall sin, and so they could give me an evil name, to reproach me. (14) My Elohim, remember Toḇiyah and Sanballat, according to these works of theirs, and the prophetess Noʽaḏyah and the rest of the prophets who would have made me afraid. (15) And the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth of the month of Elul, in fifty-two days. (16) And it came to be, when all our enemies heard, and all the nations around us saw, that they fell greatly in their own eyes, and knew that this work was done by our Elohim. (17) In those days the nobles of Yehuḏah also sent many letters to Toḇiyah, while those of Toḇiyah came to them. (18) For many in Yehuḏah were sworn to him, because he was the son-in-law of Sheḵanyah son of Araḥ, and his son Yehoḥanan had married the daughter of Meshullam son of Bereḵyah. (19) They were also speaking about his good deeds before me, and reported my words to him. Toḇiyah sent letters to frighten me. (7:1) And it came to be, when the wall was rebuilt, that I set up the doors, and the gatekeepers, and the singers, and the Lĕwites were appointed. (2) And I put my brother Ḥanani in charge of Yerushalayim, and Ḥananyah the head of the palace, for he was a trustworthy man and feared Elohim more than many. (3) And I said to them, “Let not the gates of Yerushalayim be opened until the sun is hot. And while they are standing by, let them shut the doors and bolt them. And appoint guards from among the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, each at his post, and each in front of his own house.” (4) And the city was wide on both sides and great, but the people in it were few, and the houses were not rebuilt. (5) And my Elohim put it into my heart to gather the nobles, and the deputy rulers, and the people, in order to be registered by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of those who had come up at the beginning, and I found written in it: (6) These are the sons of the province who came back from the captivity of the exiles whom Neḇuḵaḏnetstsar the sovereign of Baḇel had exiled, and who returned to Yerushalayim and Yehuḏah, each to his city, (7) who came with Zerubbaḇel, Yĕshua, Neḥemyah, Azaryah, Raʽamyah, Naḥamani, Mordeḵai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Biḡwai, Neḥum, Baʽanah. The number of the men of the people of Yisra’ĕl: (8) sons of Parosh, two thousand one hundred and seventy-two; (9) sons of Shephatyah, three hundred and seventy-two; (10) sons of Araḥ, six hundred and fifty-two; (11) sons of Paḥath-Mo’aḇ, of the sons of Yĕshua and Yo’aḇ, two thousand eight hundred and eighteen; (12) sons of Ěylam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four; (13) sons of Zattu, eight hundred and forty-five; (14) sons of Zakkai, seven hundred and sixty; (15) sons of Binnui, six hundred and forty-eight; (16) sons of Bĕḇai, six hundred and twenty-eight; (17) sons of Azgaḏ, two thousand three hundred and twenty-two; (18) sons of Aḏoniqam, six hundred and sixty-seven; (19) sons of Biḡwai, two thousand and sixty-seven; (20) sons of Aḏin, six hundred and fifty-five; (21) sons of Atĕr of Ḥizqiyah, ninety-eight; (22) sons of Ḥashum, three hundred and twenty-eight; (23) sons of Bĕtsai, three hundred and twenty-four; (24) sons of Ḥariph, one hundred and twelve; (25) sons of Giḇʽon, ninety-five; (26) men of Bĕyth Leḥem and Netophah, one hundred and eighty-eight; (27) men of Anathoth, one hundred and twenty-eight; (28) men of Bĕyth Azmaweth, forty-two; (29) men of Qiryath Yeʽarim, Kephirah, and Be’ĕroth, seven hundred and forty-three; (30) men of Ramah and Geḇa, six hundred and twenty-one; (31) men of Miḵmas, one hundred and twenty-two; (32) men of Bĕyth Ěl and Ai, one hundred and twenty-three; (33) men of the other Neḇo, fifty-two; (34) sons of the other Ěylam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four; (35) sons of Ḥarim, three hundred and twenty; (36) sons of Yeriḥo, three hundred and forty-five; (37) sons of Loḏ, Ḥaḏiḏ, and Ono, seven hundred and twenty-one; (38) sons of Sena’ah, three thousand nine hundred and thirty. (39) The priests: sons of Yeḏayah, of the house of Yĕshua, nine hundred and seventy-three; (40) sons of Immĕr, one thousand and fifty-two; (41) sons of Pashhur, one thousand two hundred and forty-seven; (42) sons of Ḥarim, one thousand and seventeen. (43) The Lĕwites: sons of Yĕshua, of Qaḏmi’ĕl, of the sons of Hoḏewah, seventy-four. (44) The singers: sons of Asaph, one hundred and forty-eight. (45) The gatekeepers: sons of Shallum, sons of Atĕr, sons of Talmon, sons of Aqquḇ, sons of Ḥatita, sons of Shoḇai, one hundred and thirty-eight. (46) The Nethinim: sons of Tsiḥa, sons of Ḥasupha, sons of Tabbaʽoth, (47) sons of Qĕyros, sons of Siʽa, sons of Paḏon, (48) sons of Leḇanah, sons of Ḥaḡaḇa, sons of Salmai, (49) sons of Ḥanan, sons of Giddĕl, sons of Gaḥar, (50) sons of Re’ayah, sons of Retsin, sons of Neqoḏa, (51) sons of Gazzam, sons of Uzza, sons of Pasĕaḥ, (52) sons of Bĕsai, sons of Meʽunim, sons of Nephishesim, (53) sons of Baqbuq, sons of Ḥaqupha, sons of Ḥarḥur, (54) sons of Batslith, sons of Meḥiḏa, sons of Ḥarsha, (55) sons of Barqos, sons of Sisera, sons of Temaḥ, (56) sons of Netsiyaḥ, and sons of Ḥatipha. (57) The sons of Shelomoh’s servants: sons of Sotai, sons of Sophereth, sons of Periḏa, (58) sons of Yaʽala, sons of Darqon, sons of Giddĕl, (59) sons of Shephatyah, sons of Ḥattil, sons of Poḵereth of Tseḇayim, sons of Amon. (60) All the Nethinim, and the sons of Shelomoh’s servants, were three hundred and ninety-two. (61) And these were the ones who came up from Tĕl Melaḥ, Tĕl Ḥarsha, Keruḇ, Addon, and Immĕr, but they were unable to show their father’s house, and their seed, whether they were of Yisra’ĕl: (62) sons of Delayah, sons of Toḇiyah, sons of Neqoḏa, six hundred and forty-two. (63) And of the priests: sons of Ḥaḇayah, sons of Qots, sons of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gilʽaḏite, and was called by their name. (64) These sought their register among those who were counted by genealogy, but it was not found, so they were barred from the priesthood as defiled. (65) And the governor said to them that they should not eat of the most set-apart gifts until a priest stood up with the Urim and Tummim. (66) All the assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty, (67) besides their male and female servants, these were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven. And they had two hundred and forty-five men and women singers. (68) Their horses were seven hundred and thirty-six, their mules two hundred and forty-five, (69) camels four hundred and thirty-five, donkeys six thousand seven hundred and twenty. (70) And some of the heads of the fathers’ houses contributed to the work. The governor gave to the treasury one thousand gold drachmas, fifty basins, and five hundred and thirty priestly garments. (71) Some of the heads of the fathers’ houses gave to the treasury of the work twenty thousand gold drachmas, and two thousand two hundred silver minas. (72) And the rest of the people gave twenty thousand gold drachmas, two thousand silver minas, and sixty-seven priestly garments. (73) So the priests, and the Lĕwites, and the gatekeepers, and the singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinim, and all Yisra’ĕl dwelt in their cities. Mat 6:9-13 Our Father who is in the heavens, let Your Name be set-apart, let Your Kingdom come, let Your desire be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. And forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us. And lead us away from temptation, and deliver us from the wicked one – because Yours is the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory, Forever. Amen. Num 6:22-27 YHWH bless you and guard you; YHWH make His face shine upon you, and show favor to you; YHWH lift up His face upon you, and give you peace. 2Co:13:14 The favor of the Master Yahu’shuah Messiah, and the love of Elohim, and the fellowship of the Set-apart Spirit be with all of you. Amen. Bradley T. Bjerken Bond servants of Yahu’shuah Messiah
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