Nehemiah’s appeal to God. The prayer is a perfect example of the private and individual devotion with which the later Hebrew Scriptures abound. It …

We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy …

Now these are your servants, and your people
Meaning those that were in Jerusalem and Judah, gathered out of several…

Nehemiah was the Persian king's cup-bearer. When God has work to do, He will never lack instruments to do it with. Nehemiah lived at ease and in ho…