Read Nehemiah 11:1-36
Don’t let the list of names bore you to death. There is always a message hidden in Scripture. What’s a bit puzzling for me is why Nehemiah felt led to include all these names. Can you imagine if your name had shown up in the pages of the Bible?
It shouldn’t surprise us that the people returning to Judah would want to live on their family’s land. Not everybody would have lived in Jerusalem proper before being exiled. The motivation of the people seems to be to take back what was already theirs, grateful for the opportunity to start a new life in their homeland.
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