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Nehemiah 7 - Nehemiah's List of Exiled Families
In the West, we often skip over chapters like this because we don't care about family names or random people, but in Nehemiah's day, family name meant everything:
God put it on Nehemiah's heart to gather the nobles and rulers to list the people by genealogy, which is a crucial task for repopulating the city of Jerusalem.
Why did God put this on Nehemiah's heart when Ezra already did it?
The differences between Nehemiah's account and Ezra's account in the Book of Ezra
The foreign temple servants who came back to Israel
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