daily reading 52.3 (Nehemiah 13:23–31)

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


Our opening prayer for this week:

Joy to the world, the Lord is come!
Let earth receive her King;
Let ev’ry heart prepare him room
And heaven and nature sing.

Joy to the earth, the Savior reigns!
Let all their songs employ.
While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains
Repeat the sounding joy.

No more let sins and sorrows grow
Nor thorns infest the ground.
He comes to make his blessings known
Far as the curse is found.

He rules the world with truth and grace
And makes the nations prove
The glories of his righteousness
And wonders of his love. Amen.

 

Nehemiah 13:23–31

  • In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. 24 Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or the language of one of the other peoples but could not speak Hebrew.
  • 25 I rebuked them, cursed them, beat some of their men, and pulled out their hair. I forced them to take an oath before God and said, "You must not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters as wives for your sons or yourselves!
  • 26 "Didn't King Solomon of Israel sin in matters like this? There was not a king like him among many nations. He was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel, yet foreign women drew him into sin.
  • 27 "Why then should we hear about you doing all this terrible evil and acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?"
  • 28 Even one of the sons of Jehoiada, son of the high priest Eliashib, had become a son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. So I drove him away from me.
  • 29 Remember them, my God, for defiling the priesthood as well as the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.
  • 30 So I purified them from everything foreign and assigned specific duties to each of the priests and Levites.
  • 31 I also arranged for the donation of wood at the appointed times and for the firstfruits.
  • Remember me, my God, with favor.



For yourself pray:

  • That for Jesus' sake God remembers you with favor

For others pray:

  • That in the upcoming year God gives your congregation his Spirit for your biggest sin problem

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

 

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