Nehemiah 1:10
They are Your servants and Your people. You redeemed them by Your great power and mighty hand.
Sermons
Careful Inquiry Helpful to Philanthropic EffortW. P. Lockhart.Nehemiah 1:1-11
City Walls ImportantA. J. Griffith.Nehemiah 1:1-11
Divine Purposes Working Through ProvidenceW. H. Booth.Nehemiah 1:1-11
God and His PeopleR.A. Redford Nehemiah 1:1-11
Interest in JerusalemJ. M. Randall.Nehemiah 1:1-11
Jerusalem, the HolyJ. M. Randall.Nehemiah 1:1-11
Man's Love for the Land of His BirthChristian AgeNehemiah 1:1-11
Nehemiah and His ContemporiesJ. M. Randall.Nehemiah 1:1-11
Piety in Unexpected PlacesJ. M. Randall.Nehemiah 1:1-11
Protective WallsSunday SchoolNehemiah 1:1-11
Sin Ruins a KingdomW. Jay.Nehemiah 1:1-11
The ExileW. Ritchie.Nehemiah 1:1-11
The Pious PatriotT. C. Finlayson.Nehemiah 1:1-11
The Royal Cup-BearerT. Rowson.Nehemiah 1:1-11
The Typical PatriotW. H. Booth.Nehemiah 1:1-11
The Use of a Great PurposeScenes from the Life of Nehemiah.Nehemiah 1:1-11
The Walls of JerusalemA. J. Griffith.Nehemiah 1:1-11
Walls and GatesJ. A. Lefevre, D. D.Nehemiah 1:1-11
A Model PrayerJ. M. Randall.Nehemiah 1:4-11
Compassion as a Motive PowerW. P. Lockhart.Nehemiah 1:4-11
Constancy in PrayerJ. M. Randall.Nehemiah 1:4-11
False Views of Sin and Prevailing ImmoralityW. P. Lockhart.Nehemiah 1:4-11
FastingHomiletic CommentaryNehemiah 1:4-11
Forgotten Sins RememberedJ. Kidd.Nehemiah 1:4-11
God Provides Instruments for His WorkW. P. Lockhart.Nehemiah 1:4-11
Intelligent Faith in PrayerA. J. Griffiths.Nehemiah 1:4-11
Nehemiah or the Characteristics of PrayerJohn Patteson, M. A.Nehemiah 1:4-11
Nehemiah's PrayerS. L. B. Speare.Nehemiah 1:4-11
Nehemiah's PrayerMonday Club SermonsNehemiah 1:4-11
Nehemiah's PrayerD. J. Burrell, D. D.Nehemiah 1:4-11
Nehemiah's PrayerThe Author of "The Footsteps of Jesus."Nehemiah 1:4-11
Patience Required in Waiting Upon GodJ. M. Randall.Nehemiah 1:4-11
Personal Interest Leading to Importunate PrayerMark Guy Pearse.Nehemiah 1:4-11
Piety and PrayerJ.S. Exell Nehemiah 1:4-11
Prayer and Quiet WaitingW. P. Lockhart.Nehemiah 1:4-11
Religiousness of SpiritA. J. Griffiths.Nehemiah 1:4-11
Sad Tidings and Fruitful GriefW. H. Booth.Nehemiah 1:4-11
Sins of a Community ConfessedS. S. TimesNehemiah 1:4-11
The Church and SocialA. Maclaren, D. D.Nehemiah 1:4-11
The Majesty and Mercy of GodHomiletic CommentaryNehemiah 1:4-11
A Prayer: its CharacteristicsW. Clarkson Nehemiah 1:5-11
God's Doings in Grace are as the Links of a ChainW. Ritchie.Nehemiah 1:9-11
Pleading Former FavoursSignal.Nehemiah 1:9-11
The King's Cup-BearerJ. Irons.Nehemiah 1:9-11
The King's Cup-BearerW. Ritchie.Nehemiah 1:9-11
The King's Cup-BearersW. M. Statham.Nehemiah 1:9-11
The Prayer of NehemiahWilliam Jay.Nehemiah 1:9-11
The Spiritual Favourite At the Throne of GraceSibbes, RichardNehemiah 1:9-11














We have many recorded prayers in the sacred Scriptures. They have various characteristics, as we should expect they would have; for our individuality - that in which God has made us to be different from every one else - should appear in prayer as much as in any other act. More rather than less, for if there be one thing more especially in which we should "be ourselves," it is when we approach him who requires "truth in the inward parts." Nevertheless, we shall find in the prayer of Nehemiah those characteristics which we should expect to find in any address to God from a holy man, and which should mark our devotion.

I. REVERENCE. "I beseech thee, O Lord God of heaven, the great and terrible God" (ver. 5). "Let thine ear be attentive, and thine eyes open" (ver. 6). Nehemiah speaks as one who feels that it is an infinite condescension for the Majesty on high to "humble himself to behold the things which are done upon the earth." In our "access with boldness" there is danger lest we run into irreverence. Who can help marking a painful familiarity in the addresses of some men to the Saviour of mankind? If we feel that our Maker is our friend, we must never forget that our friend is our Maker.

II. ADORATION. "Thou keepest covenant and mercy," etc. (ver. 5). Critics who raise an easy sneer about our "telling God the truth concerning himself" must not be allowed to deprive us of the privilege and drive us from the duty of adoration. It is a fitting thing, well sanctioned in Scripture, fruitful of humility and sacred joy, to ascribe in prayer "the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty" to our God (1 Chronicles 29:11; Revelation 4:11, etc.).

III. CONFESSION. "The sins which we have sinned against thee," etc. (vers. 6, 7). Here is confession of national sin. Our consciousness tells us of our own guilt, and should lead us to confess

(a) our transgressions ("we have dealt corruptly") and

(b) our shortcomings ("we have not kept," etc.).

Our confession of sin should be simple and natural, not conventional or ostentatious. The truer, the more acceptable. Beside the acknowledgment of our own personal faultiness, our sympathy with our fellows (of the same family, Church, nation) will lead us to confess our sins as members of a community.

IV. SUPPLICATION, PLEADING (vers. 8, 9, 10). Nehemiah pleads with God his ancient promises, and he reverently affirms that they for whom he is making intercession are such as these promises included. We cannot do better than plead (a) God's word of promise, and (b) his past deliverances (ver. 10): "Thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt thou not deliver my feet from falling?" (Psalm 56:13).

V. EARNESTNESS. In verse 11 Nehemiah urges his petition: "O Lord, I beseech thee," etc. Earnestness is not content with one clear utterance. It returns and repeats. The language of entreaty is naturally redundant. It does not spare words; it pleads and pleads again.

VI. DEFINITENESS. "Prosper thy servant . . and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king's cupbearer" (ver. 11). Nehemiah prays not only generally for God's merciful regard to be given to his people, but he asks especially that the mind of the king, Artaxerxes, may be favourably disposed towards himself. We should consider what we urgently require when we draw nigh to God in prayer, and ask him for those special and definite favours which are most calculated to meet the need of our circumstances and life. Only, as here, we must be unselfish and high-minded in the desires we cherish. - C.

Which camp in the hedges in the cold day.
Paxton and others have remarked that there is much difficulty in this passage; but to anyone who has attentively watched the habits of the locusts it is not only plain, but very striking. In the evenings, as soon as the air became cool, at Aheih, they literally camped in the hedges and loose stone walls, covering them over like a swarm of bees settled on a bush. There they remained until the next day's sun waxed warm, when they again commenced to march. One of the days on which they were passing was quite cool, and the locusts scarcely moved at all from their camps, and multitudes remained actually stationary until the next morning. Those that did march crept along very heavily, as if cramped and stiff; but in a hot day they hurried forward in a very earnest, lively manner. It is an aggravation of the calamity if the weather continues cool; for then they prolong their stay, and do far more damage.

(Thomson's "Land and Book.")

People
Hachaliah, Hanani, Israelites, Nehemiah
Places
Jerusalem, Susa
Topics
Hast, Mighty, Power, Ransomed, Redeemed, Servants, Strength, Strong, Yours
Outline
1. Nehemiah, understanding by Hanani the misery of Jerusalem, mourns, fasts, and prays
5. His prayer

Dictionary of Bible Themes
Nehemiah 1:10

     1105   God, power of
     1265   hand of God
     1315   God, as redeemer
     6721   redemption, in life
     7160   servants of the Lord

Nehemiah 1:4-11

     6655   forgiveness, application
     8618   prayerfulness

Library
The Church and Social Evils
'It came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven.'--NEH. i. 4. Ninety years had passed since the returning exiles had arrived at Jerusalem. They had encountered many difficulties which had marred their progress and cooled their enthusiasm. The Temple, indeed, was rebuilt, but Jerusalem lay in ruins, and its walls remained as they had been left, by Nebuchadnezzar's siege, some century and a half before.
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture

A Reformer's Schooling
'The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace, 2. That Hanani, one of my brethren, came, he and certain men of Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews that had escaped, which were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem. 3. And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture

Nehemiah, the Praying Builder
We care not for your splendid abilities as a minister, or your natural endowment as an orator before men. We are sure that the truth of the matter is this: No one will or can command success and become a real praying soul unless intense application is the price. I am even now convinced that the difference between the saints like Wesley, Fletcher, Edwards, Brainerd, Bramwell, Bounds, and ourselves is energy, perseverance, invincible determination to succeed or die in the attempt. God help us.--Rev.
Edward M. Bounds—Prayer and Praying Men

Discouragements and Courage
'Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them. 10. And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall. 11. And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease. 12. And it came to pass, that when the Jews which dwelt by them came, they said unto us ten times, From all
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture

The Last Days of the Old Eastern World
The Median wars--The last native dynasties of Egypt--The Eastern world on the eve of the Macedonian conquest. [Drawn by Boudier, from one of the sarcophagi of Sidon, now in the Museum of St. Irene. The vignette, which is by Faucher-Gudin, represents the sitting cyno-cephalus of Nectanebo I., now in the Egyptian Museum at the Vatican.] Darius appears to have formed this project of conquest immediately after his first victories, when his initial attempts to institute satrapies had taught him not
G. Maspero—History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, V 9

A Treatise of the Fear of God;
SHOWING WHAT IT IS, AND HOW DISTINGUISHED FROM THAT WHICH IS NOT SO. ALSO, WHENCE IT COMES; WHO HAS IT; WHAT ARE THE EFFECTS; AND WHAT THE PRIVILEGES OF THOSE THAT HAVE IT IN THEIR HEARTS. London: Printed for N. Ponder, at the Peacock in the Poultry, over against the Stocks market: 1679. ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR. "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom," and "a fountain of life"--the foundation on which all wisdom rests, as well as the source from whence it emanates. Upon a principle
John Bunyan—The Works of John Bunyan Volumes 1-3

Influences that Gave Rise to the Priestly Laws and Histories
[Sidenote: Influences in the exile that produced written ceremonial laws] The Babylonian exile gave a great opportunity and incentive to the further development of written law. While the temple stood, the ceremonial rites and customs received constant illustration, and were transmitted directly from father to son in the priestly families. Hence, there was little need of writing them down. But when most of the priests were carried captive to Babylonia, as in 597 B.C., and ten years later the temple
Charles Foster Kent—The Origin & Permanent Value of the Old Testament

Ezra-Nehemiah
Some of the most complicated problems in Hebrew history as well as in the literary criticism of the Old Testament gather about the books of Ezra and Nehemiah. Apart from these books, all that we know of the origin and early history of Judaism is inferential. They are our only historical sources for that period; and if in them we have, as we seem to have, authentic memoirs, fragmentary though they be, written by the two men who, more than any other, gave permanent shape and direction to Judaism, then
John Edgar McFadyen—Introduction to the Old Testament

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