{"query": "Nehemiah the Wall-Builder", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_a6d2fa25ebc4", "title": "Nehemiah the Wall-Builder", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hears that Jerusalems walls are broken; weeps, fasts, prays, and asks the king; arrives, surveys at night, organizes by household; works with sword in one hand and trowel in the other; refuses to come"}, {"id": "card_n_d37649c81c16", "title": "Easton: Nehemiah, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The author of this book was no doubt Nehemiah himself. There are portions of the book written in the first person (ch. 1-7; 12:27-47, and 13). But there are also portions of it in which Nehemiah is sp"}, {"id": "card_n_9ff8220149e8", "title": "Nehemiah", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "wall rebuilt, covenant renewal\n\n13 chapters · Nehemiah."}, {"id": "card_n_ad13fee569a5", "title": "Easton: Tyropoeon Valley", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(i.e., “Valley of the Cheesemongers”), the name given by Josephus the historian to the valley or rugged ravine which in ancient times separated Mount Moriah from Mount Zion. This valley, now filled up"}, {"id": "card_n_7f99bc358c45", "title": "A parable — Critical path", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A builder was behind on his work. He hired more men, but the wall waited on the stone, and the stone waited on the kiln, and the kiln waited on the fire, and the fire could only burn at the speed of f"}, {"id": "card_n_2a67111f61f5", "title": "Easton: Eliashib", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Whom God will restore. (1.) A priest, head of one of the courses of the priests of the time of David (1 Chr. 24:12). (2.) A high priest in the time of Ezra and Nehemiah (Neh. 12:22, 23). He rebuilt th"}, {"id": "card_n_b5cc5517c335", "title": "Easton: Tobiah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Pleasing to Jehovah, the “servant,” the “Ammonite,” who joined with those who opposed the rebuilding of Jerusalem after the Exile (Neh. 2:10). He was a man of great influence, which he exerted in oppo"}, {"id": "card_n_21b324ea833f", "title": "Easton: Wailing-place, Jews’", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A section of the western wall of the temple area, where the Jews assemble every Friday afternoon to bewail their desolate condition (Ps. 79:1, 4, 5). The stones in this part of the wall are of great s"}, {"id": "card_n_7fba6f153494", "title": "Easton: Shur", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An enclosure; a wall, a part, probably, of the Arabian desert, on the north-eastern border of Egypt, giving its name to a wilderness extending from Egypt toward Philistia (Gen. 16:7; 20:1; 25:18; Ex. "}, {"id": "card_n_32eb82a23d70", "title": "Easton: Nehemiah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Comforted by Jehovah. (1.) Ezra 2:2; Neh. 7:7. (2.) Neh. 3:16. (3.) The son of Hachaliah (Neh. 1:1), and probably of the tribe of Judah. His family must have belonged to Jerusalem (Neh. 2:3). He was o"}, {"id": "card_n_1b6668b269ba", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_020: Hence it is so of Thee, our God, as to be altogether other than Thou, and not...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Hence it is so of Thee, our God, as to be altogether other than Thou, and not the Self-same: because though we find time neither before it, nor even in it (it being meet ever to behold Thy face, nor i"}, {"id": "card_n_c9c769b5903d", "title": "Easton: Parbar", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1 Chr. 26:18), a place apparently connected with the temple, probably a “suburb” (q.v.), as the word is rendered in 2 Kings 23:11; a space between the temple wall and the wall of the court; an open p"}, {"id": "card_n_c08051e79f81", "title": "Easton: Sanballat", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Held some place of authority in Samaria when Nehemiah went up to Jerusalem to rebuild its ruined walls. He vainly attempted to hinder this work (Neh. 2:10, 19; 4:1-12; 6). His daughter became the wife"}, {"id": "card_n_670ae49d6906", "title": "Easton: Ophel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hill; mound, the long, narrow, rounded promontory on the southern slope of the temple hill, between the Tyropoeon and the Kedron valley (2 Chr. 27:3; 33:14; Neh. 3:26, 27). It was surrounded by a sepa"}, {"id": "card_n_f1c3ba81bad2", "title": "Easton: Hanani", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "God has gratified me, or is gracious. (1.) One of the sons of Heman (1 Chr. 25:4, 25). (2.) A prophet who was sent to rebuke king Asa for entering into a league with Benhadad I., king of Syria, agains"}, {"id": "card_n_41c5287a97b2", "title": "A parable — Argue brother", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Two brothers built a wall together. One laid the stones to the left, the other to the right, and each thought the other was crooked. They never asked the third brother — the one who could see both sid"}, {"id": "card_n_ebb9ee6aa3ee", "title": "Easton: Malachi", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Messenger or angel, the last of the minor prophets, and the writer of the last book of the Old Testament canon (Mal. 4:4, 5, 6). Nothing is known of him beyond what is contained in his book of prophec"}, {"id": "card_n_462dd2ad643c", "title": "Devotional: Insight: The Ephraim Gate", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Be careful which gates you open. God may be warning you to close off partnerships, habits, or voices that look like allies but are walking in rebellion. If you don't close the gate when He says to — i"}, {"id": "card_n_446dfc378ee1", "title": "Easton: Wall", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cities were surrounded by walls, as distinguished from “unwalled villages” (Ezek. 38:11; Lev. 25:29-34). They were made thick and strong (Num. 13:28; Deut. 3:5). Among the Jews walls were built of sto"}, {"id": "card_n_04c4bc1b8b99", "title": "Easton: Ono", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A town of Benjamin, in the “plain of Ono” (1 Chr. 8:12; Ezra 2:33); now Kefr ‘Ana, 5 miles north of Lydda, and about 30 miles north-west of Jerusalem. Not succeeding in their attempts to deter Nehemia"}]}