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Nehemiah chapter 11 verse 19.

The gatekeepers, a kub, Taub, Taub, and their brothers, who kept watch at the gates, were 172.

Now that may not seem like the most inspiring verse of scripture you've ever read or heard, but this is what

Nehemi Chapter 11 is all about. It's got just a list of people's names and what they did, priests, Levites, chiefs of the province,

this verse in particular the gatekeepers, a coob, tolling and their brothers who kept watching the gates and it says they were 172.

The whole picture, what I love is I was reading this, I was just thinking yes, the names of each of these people and their number, like 172 of them, every single

one of them matters.

Every single one of them is important. I love this chapter of scripture. This

is kind of chapter when you're reading through the Bible you often kind of

skip through because it's like, ah, just a bunch of names. I don't really know what this

has to do with me. It has everything to do with us to realize every name here is important.

That God made sure every name, all these different names were written down, the numbers were written down.

The numbers were written down.

Each person among the people of God

who was playing this part, that part.

I just want to encourage you,

you think about your life to know.

Well, the obvious, like God knows your name.

Not as he know your name, but you think about pictures that we see in scripture like

Jesus saying he knows the number of hairs on your head like they're numbered

not only even he knows how many there he's numbered all of them like he knows which one is number

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