Bible Study 20230516 Neh_5:1-19
Bible Study?20230516 Neh_5:1-19??
Nehemiah Stops Oppression of the Poor
Neh 5:1?Now there was a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brothers.?
Neh 5:2?For there were those who said, "We, our sons and our daughters are many; therefore let us get grain that we may eat and live."?
Neh 5:3?There were others who said, "We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards and our houses that we might get grain because of the famine."?
Neh 5:4?Also there were those who said, "We have borrowed money for the king's tax on our fields and our vineyards.?
Neh 5:5?"Now our flesh is like the flesh of our brothers, our children like their children. Yet behold, we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters are forced into bondage already, and we are helpless because our fields and vineyards belong to others."?
Neh 5:6?Then I was very angry when I had heard their outcry and these words.?
Neh 5:7?I consulted with myself and contended with the nobles and the rulers and said to them, "You are exacting usury, each from his brother!" Therefore, I held a great assembly against them.?
Neh 5:8?I said to them, "We according to our ability have redeemed our Jewish brothers who were sold to the nations; now would you even sell your brothers that they may be sold to us?" Then they were silent and could not find a word to say.?
Neh 5:9?Again I said, "The thing which you are doing is not good; should you not walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the nations, our enemies??
Neh 5:10?"And likewise I, my brothers and my servants are lending them money and grain. Please, let us leave off this usury.?
Neh 5:11?"Please, give back to them this very day their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money and of the grain, the new wine and the oil that you are exacting from them."?
Neh 5:12?Then they said, "We will give it back and will require nothing from them; we will do exactly as you say." So I called the priests and took an oath from them that they would do according to this promise.?
Neh 5:13?I also shook out the front of my garment and said, "Thus may God shake out every man from his house and from his possessions who does not fulfill this promise; even thus may he be shaken out and emptied." And all the assembly said, "Amen!" And they praised the LORD. Then the people did according to this promise.?
Nehemiah's Generosity
Neh 5:14?Moreover, from the day that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year to the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes, for twelve years, neither I nor my kinsmen have eaten the governor's food allowance.?
Neh 5:15?But the former governors who were before me laid burdens on the people and took from them bread and wine besides forty shekels of silver; even their servants domineered the people. But I did not do so because of the fear of God.?
Neh 5:16?I also applied myself to the work on this wall; we did not buy any land, and all my servants were gathered there for the work.?
Neh 5:17?Moreover, there were at my table one hundred and fifty Jews and officials, besides those who came to us from the nations that were around us.?
Neh 5:18?Now that which was prepared for each day was one ox and six choice sheep, also birds were prepared for me; and once in ten days all sorts of wine were furnished in abundance. Yet for all this I did not demand the governor's food allowance, because the servitude was heavy on this people.?
Neh 5:19?Remember me, O my God, for good, according to all that I have done for this people.?
Revelation From God
Author
Although the author is unknown, there is strong evidence that the author is the Chronicler, who is also the author of the Apocrypha writings of Esdras 1 and 2. In fact one could make a strong case that 2nd Kings, 1st and 2nd Chronicles, 1st and 2nd Esdras, Ezra and Nehemiah are all authored by the same author. As the theological purpose are all the same and the style of writing is all the same. There are however, sections of Nehemiah that he himeslf had to write, as they are writen in the first person, Neh_1:1— Neh_7:5; Neh_12:27-43; Neh_13:4-31. So clearly the book opf Nehemiah had 2 authors the Chronicler and Nehemiah.?
Date
GLI takes a stance for an early writing of Nehemiah, that of the same time as Chronicles around 400 B. C. As the history discussed in Nehemiah has no later events, that we are aware of and Nehemiah dies around 430 B.C.??
History/Theology/Purpose
Nehemiah needs to be read with less of an eye on History and more of an eye on the Theological point of the writing. Theologically the Chronicler is driving home the point of the restoration of the Church. The Chronicler points all to the fact that we are all (1) in the body of Christ, YHWH the Church, YHWH Qahal, Ecclesia Gen_1:4-5, Gen_1:27-31, Gen_3:22, Exo_34:9, Exo_36:18, Lev_26:42-46, Lev_27:1-34, Deu_18:2, Deu_33:26-29, Jos_13:1-33, 1Sa_18:1-5, 1Ch_28:1-21, 2Ch_3:1-17, 2Ch_4:1-22, 2Ch_5:1-14, 2Ch_6:1-11, 2Ch_30:6-9, Eze_1:1-28, Eze_10:1-22, Eze_40:1-49, Joh_10:30-38, Joh_14:1-31, Joh_15:1-27, Joh_17:20-26, Rom_8:9-10, Rom_12:1-8, 1Co_3:16, 1Co_6:12-20, 1Co_12:1-31, 2Co_5:17-21, 2Co_6:14-18, Col_1:15-19, Eph_2:1-22, Eph_4:1-32, Gal_3:26-28, 1Pe_1:13-25, 1Jn_3:11-24, 1Jn_4:7-21, Rev_22:1-21, that all are redeemed, bought back: Luk_15:1-32, Rom_3:23, Rev_2:5, Rev_12:4-9, to the body of Christ, 1Co_12:1-31, 2Co_5:17-21, 2Co_6:14-18, Col_1:15-19, Eph_2:1-22, Eph_4:1-32, Gal_3:26-28, 1Pe_1:13-25, 1Jn_3:11-24, 1Jn_4:7-21, Rev_22:1-21 that we are purchased back by the blood of Christ Joh_1:29, Col_1:13-14, Eph_1:7, Heb_13:20-21.?
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Ezra was the spiritual leader of Jerusalem and Nehemiah was the political leader. Nehemiah is concerned not only with the restoration of the body of Christ but for the complete and perfect restoration of all, as shown in the completion of the outer walls of Jerusalem.?
The purpose of Chapter (5) is to teach all to give cheerfully,?Gen_14:18-20, Deu_14:22-29, Deu_15:11, Deu_26:1-19, 2Ki_12:4, 2Co_8:14-15, 2Co_9:6-15, Heb_7:1-17!!!!
Structure
Ezra and Nehemiah are not structured with chronological order in mind, some theologians make the argument that Ezra was actually written after Nehemiah and that the event are in reverse order. They would assert that because Ezra does not rebuild the temple of the Lord as mandated by King Cyrus, that Ezra failed his mission until Nehemiah comes along. However, the Chronicler is not worried about the chronological order, he is worried about the Theological message that is being driven home. Plus in Ezr_6:15, the temple is completed, in the 6th year of King Darius reign, by the frist wave of Jews returning from Babylon.?
Please notice that the Chronicler uses the same reference material for 1st and 2nd Kings,?1st and 2nd Chronicles, just like 'The Book of Reigns', the Chronicler uses the same sources to write 1st and 2nd Chronicles, 1st and 2nd Esdras, Ezra and Nehemiah!!!! The Chronicler was a meticulous historian who carefully utilized official and unofficial documents. Please remember that (9) stand for {(3) YHWH, the Holy Spirit, Ruach Gen_1:2, Rev_22:17, times (3) YHWH, the Holy Spirit, Ruach, Joh_14:15-31, Joh_16:4-15}.
“the book of the annals of King David” (1Ch_27:24),?
“the book of the kings of Israel and Judah” (2Ch_27:7; 2Ch_35:27; 2Ch_36:8),?
“the book of the kings of Judah and Israel” (2Ch_16:11; 2Ch_25:26; 2Ch_28:26; 2Ch_32:32),?
“the book of the kings of Israel” (1Ch_9:1; 2Ch_20:34),?
“the annals of the kings of Israel” (2Ch_33:18),?
“the records of Samuel the seer” (1Ch_29:29),?
“the records of Nathan the prophet” (2Ch_29:29; 2Ch_9:29),?
“the records of Gad the seer” (1Ch_29:29),?
and others (see, e.g., 2Ch_9:29)
Lastly, we need to point out that Ezra and Nehemiah in the Hebrew Cannon is one book and was only separated into two books by Jerome and then adopted that way at the Council of Trent 1545-1563 AD.?
Chapter (5) The Broken, Rom_3:23, Rev_2:5, The Fallen, Gen_1:4-5, Rev_12:4-9, The Lost, Mat_18:10-14, Joh_10:27-30, The Sinner, Gen_6:1-6, 1Ti_1:8-9, The Unbelieving, Luk_15:1-32, Joh_3:18!!!! There is (1) Pericope, YHWH the Father, YHWH Ab, Isa_41:10, Isa_43:11-12, Isa_45:11-25, Zec_14:9!!!! It has (19) verses whose sum is (10) whose sum is (1) YHWH the Father, YHWH, Gen_1:1, Rev_22:13,?and is the embodiment of the perfect fulfillment of the Law Mat_5:17-20, Rom_13:8-10, Christ Jesus in You 2Co_5:17-21, Eph_4:1-32. (19) is the product of 4) YHWH the Church, YHWH Qahal, Ecclesia, 1Sa_18:1-5, 1Ch_28:1-21, Joh_15:1-27, Joh_17:20-26, times (4) YHWH the Church, YHWH Qahal, Ecclesia, Deu_18:2, Deu_33:26-29, Ezr_1:1-3, Neh_1:9-11, plus (3) YHWH The Holy Spirit, YHWH Ruach Gen_1:2, Exo_31:3, Num_11:16-30, Wis_3:9 !!!!
Exegesis / Hermeneutical
Give cheerfully Neh_5:1-19 :?
Pericope (1), YHWH the Father, YHWH Ab, Isa_41:10, Isa_43:11-12, Isa_45:11-25, Zec_14:9!!!! It has (19) verses whose sum is (10) whose sum is (1) YHWH the Father, YHWH, Gen_1:1, Rev_22:13,?and is the embodiment of the perfect fulfillment of the Law Mat_5:17-20, Rom_13:8-10, Christ Jesus in You 2Co_5:17-21, Eph_4:1-32. (19) is the product of 4) YHWH the Church, YHWH Qahal, Ecclesia, 1Sa_18:1-5, 1Ch_28:1-21, Joh_15:1-27, Joh_17:20-26, times (4) YHWH the Church, YHWH Qahal, Ecclesia, Deu_18:2, Deu_33:26-29, Ezr_1:1-3, Neh_1:9-11, plus (3) YHWH The Holy Spirit, YHWH Ruach Gen_1:2, Exo_31:3, Num_11:16-30, Wis_3:9 !!!!
Neh_5:1-13 : please notice that we are not to exact tithes or force anyone to give anything, for that is not walking in the ways of YHWH Deu_8:6, Deu_10:12, Deu_30:1-20, 1Ki_2:1-9, 1Ki_8:58-61, 2Ch_34:30-33, Psa_84:5-12, Psa_19:1-4, Isa_48:17, Eze_36:26-27, Mic_6:8, Rom_8:1-17, Gal_5:16-26, Heb_13:15-21, Jas_3:1-18, 1Pe_1:13-25, 1Pe_3:1-22, 1Jn_1:6-10, which is THEOPHILUS, GOD'S LOVE, Deu_10:18-19, Deu_11:1-32, Deu_13:3, 1Sa_18:1-5, 2Sa_9:1-13, Joh_3:16, Joh_13:34-35, Rom_5:8, Rom_13:8-10, 1Co_13:1-13, Eph_5:1-21, 1Jn_3:11-14, 1Jn_4:7-21, 1Jn_5:3!!!! YHWH wants us to give in love not compulsion!!!!
Neh_5:14-19 : give cheerfully,?Gen_14:18-20, Deu_14:22-29, Deu_15:11, Deu_26:1-19, 2Ki_12:4, 2Co_8:14-15, 2Co_9:6-15, Heb_7:1-17, because YHWH loves a cheerful giver. Also when you give cheerfully you will Walk in the ways of YHWH Deu_8:6, Deu_10:12, Deu_30:1-20, 1Ki_2:1-9, 1Ki_8:58-61, 2Ch_34:30-33, Psa_84:5-12, Psa_19:1-4, Isa_48:17, Eze_36:26-27, Mic_6:8, Rom_8:1-17, Gal_5:16-26, Heb_13:15-21, Jas_3:1-18, 1Pe_1:13-25, 1Pe_3:1-22, 1Jn_1:6-10, which is THEOPHILUS, GOD'S LOVE, Deu_10:18-19, Deu_11:1-32, Deu_13:3, 1Sa_18:1-5, 2Sa_9:1-13, Joh_3:16, Joh_13:34-35, Rom_5:8, Rom_13:8-10, 1Co_13:1-13, Eph_5:1-21, 1Jn_3:11-14, 1Jn_4:7-21, 1Jn_5:3!!!!
Conclusion
Chapter (5) is to teach all to give cheerfully,?Gen_14:18-20, Deu_14:22-29, Deu_15:11, Deu_26:1-19, 2Ki_12:4, 2Co_8:14-15, 2Co_9:6-15, Heb_7:1-17!!!!
Bible Study Question
?Do You give with all your Heart, Soul, Mind and Strength??
I pray that you give cheerfully,?Gen_14:18-20, Deu_14:22-29, Deu_15:11, Deu_26:1-19, 2Ki_12:4, 2Co_8:14-15, 2Co_9:6-15, Heb_7:1-17, because YHWH loves a cheerful giver. Also when you give cheerfully you will Walk in the ways of YHWH Deu_8:6, Deu_10:12, Deu_30:1-20, 1Ki_2:1-9, 1Ki_8:58-61, 2Ch_34:30-33, Psa_84:5-12, Psa_19:1-4, Isa_48:17, Eze_36:26-27, Mic_6:8, Rom_8:1-17, Gal_5:16-26, Heb_13:15-21, Jas_3:1-18, 1Pe_1:13-25, 1Pe_3:1-22, 1Jn_1:6-10, which is THEOPHILUS, GOD'S LOVE, Deu_10:18-19, Deu_11:1-32, Deu_13:3, 1Sa_18:1-5, 2Sa_9:1-13, Joh_3:16, Joh_13:34-35, Rom_5:8, Rom_13:8-10, 1Co_13:1-13, Eph_5:1-21, 1Jn_3:11-14, 1Jn_4:7-21, 1Jn_5:3!!!!