26“Wasn’t this exactly what led King Solomon of Israel into sin?” I demanded. “There was no king from any nation who could compare to him, and God loved him and made him king over all Israel. But even he was led into sin by his foreign wives.
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
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