GOOD MORNING, Siblings! Today, we begin Nehemiah! Our readings are Nehemiah 1-3 Rabbit Trails 🌿Brief intro facts about Nehemiah: •It is believed that Nehemiah is the author of this book and most of it is written in first person. However, we don’t know a lot about Nehemiah until we meet him in this book, where […]
GOOD AFTERNOON SIBLINGS! Today’s readings are Nehemiah 4-6 Rabbit Trails As we begin our reading…. Imagine the tension in the air, having to always have one hand free for your weapon should an attack occur. To not even be able to sleep away from your weapon, one eye open so to speak. They were doing […]
Good Morning Siblings! Today’s readings are Nehemiah 7 Today’s reading is relatively short so I’m leaving my rabbit trails will follow suit. Rabbit Trails 🌿Neh 7:2 Note how Nehemiah puts the ones who fear the Father more than most in charge. 🌿Neh 7:3 Interesting note: This sentence was originally structured in Hebrew, which is different […]
GOOD MORNING SIBLINGS!!!! What a WONDERFUL day of reading we have ahead of us! Today’s reading is Nehemiah 8-9 Rabbit Trails 🌿We ended our reading yesterday with the sentence “and when the seventh month had come, the people of Israel were in their towns.” Neh 7:73 As I touched on yesterday, this is a very […]
Good Morning Siblings! Today’s readings are Nehemiah 10-11 Rabbit Trails 🌿We begin with the people sealing the covenant they just made with YHWH. They wanted to memorialize and formalize their turning back to YHWH. Notice that they willingly, joyfully, and gratefully entered into this covenant, knowing that agreeing to obey His commandments and statutes is […]
GOOD MORNING SIBLINGS! Today we finish up Nehemiah by reading Chapters 12-13. Rabbit Trails Today’s reading begins with joy as Israel has abandoned the ways of the world and returned to keeping covenant with YHWH! 🌿Nehemiah 13:1-3 At the first part of chapter 13, we see the people reading a scroll from the book of […]