Nehemiah 13:17-20

¹⁷I confronted the leaders of Judah: "What''s going on here? This evil! Profaning the Sabbath!

¹⁸Isn''t this exactly what your ancestors did? And because of it didn''t God bring down on us and this city all this misery? And here you are adding to it--accumulating more wrath on Jerusalem by profaning the Sabbath."

¹⁹As the gates of Jerusalem were darkened by the shadows of the approaching Sabbath, I ordered the doors shut and not to be opened until the Sabbath was over. I placed some of my servants at the gates to make sure that nothing to be sold would get in on the Sabbath day.

²⁰Traders and dealers in various goods camped outside the gates once or twice.

Nehemiah 13 closes the book with a sobering return to the same sins that led to the exile. After a joyful dedication of the wall, Nehemiah leaves Jerusalem and returns to Persia. When he comes back, he finds the temple defiled, tithes neglected, the Sabbath broken, and intermarri

References· Nehemiah 13

a: v.1 — Deuteronomy 23:3-5, Nehemiah 9:3, Nehemiah 13:23, Deuteronomy 31:11-12, Ezekiel 25:1-11, 2 Kings 23:2, Isaiah 15:1-9, Luke 10:26, Isaiah 34:16, Nehemiah 2:10
b: v.2 — Deuteronomy 23:5, Joshua 24:9-10, Numbers 23:8-11, Psalms 109:28, Micah 6:5, Numbers 24:5-10, Matthew 25:40, Numbers 22:3-11, Numbers 23:18

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