daily reading 46.5 (Nehemiah 7:4–38)

 5-days-a-week through Daniel and other late OT books in 2023


Our opening prayer for this week:

Jesus, your blood and righteousness
My beauty are, my glorious dress.
Midst flaming worlds with these arrayed
With joy shall I lift up my head.

Bold shall I stand on that great day.
Who can a word against me say?
Fully through these absolved I am
From sin and fear, from guilt and shame.

Lord, I believe your precious blood, 
Which at the very throne of God
Forever will for sinners plead,
For me— e’en for my soul— was shed.

Lord, I believe were sinners more
Than sands upon the ocean shore,
You have for all a ransom paid,
For all a full atonement made.

When from the dust of death I rise
To claim your heavenly kingdom prize,
Then this shall be my only plea:
Jesus has lived and died for me.

Jesus, be worshiped endlessly!
Your boundless mercy has for me,
For me and all your hands have made,
An everlasting ransom paid. Amen.

 

Nehemiah 7:4–38

  • The city was large and spacious, but there were few people in it, and no houses had been built yet.
  • 5 Then my God put it into my mind to assemble the nobles, the officials, and the people to be registered by genealogy. I found the genealogical record of those who came back first, and I found the following written in it:
  • 6 These are the people of the province who went up among the captive exiles deported by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. Each of them returned to Jerusalem and Judah, to his own town.
  • 7 They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, and Baanah. The number of the Israelite men included
  • 8 Parosh's descendants 2,172
  • 9 Shephatiah's descendants 372
  • 10 Arah's descendants 652
  • 11 Pahath-moab's descendants: Jeshua's and Joab's descendants 2,818
  • 12 Elam's descendants 1,254
  • 13 Zattu's descendants 845
  • 14 Zaccai's descendants 760
  • 15 Binnui's descendants 648
  • 16 Bebai's descendants 628
  • 17 Azgad's descendants 2,322
  • 18 Adonikam's descendants 667
  • 19 Bigvai's descendants 2,067
  • 20 Adin's descendants 655
  • 21 Ater's descendants: of Hezekiah 98
  • 22 Hashum's descendants 328
  • 23 Bezai's descendants 324
  • 24 Hariph's descendants 112
  • 25 Gibeon's descendants 95
  • 26 Bethlehem's and Netophah's men 188
  • 27 Anathoth's men 128
  • 28 Beth-azmaveth's men 42
  • 29 Kiriath-jearim's, Chephirah's, and Beeroth's men 743
  • 30 Ramah's and Geba's men 621
  • 31 Michmas's men 122
  • 32 Bethel's and Ai's men 123
  • 33 the other Nebo's men 52
  • 34 the other Elam's people 1,254
  • 35 Harim's people 320
  • 36 Jericho's people 345
  • 37 Lod's, Hadid's, and Ono's people 721
  • 38 Senaah's people 3,930.



For yourself pray:

  • That God gives you clarity about difficult matters in his Word

For others pray:

  • That God for Jesus' sake gives his Spirit to whomever is preaching to your congregation this weekend

A psalm to listen to and ponder, as time allows:

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