Nehemiah chapter 10 tonight we're just going to take one chapter again I was tempted to start

in chapter 11 but I don't want to rush through it I love this book I love this book I love this book

so really looking forward to what the Lord has for us tonight in chapter 10 as we make our way through

this book getting almost to the end

and then of course really looking forward to the book of esther which follows the book of neemi so let's pray

and then we'll jump into the word loving heavenly father thank you so much for your word and thank you for these thursday night bible

studies that we can just come together and put aside all the cares and the affairs of our busy

lives and just focus our attention upon you and your word and that which you have for us and that which

you desire to minister to us. So Lord, will you speak clearly into our lives as we devote this time

to you together in your word? We pray in Jesus' name. Amen. All right, let's jump in verse one now those who placed their seal on the document were

nehemiah the governor the son of haklaya and zedekiah seraiya verse two azariah jeremiah

pashur amariah malch, Paschur, Amariah, Melchizha, Hatush, Shabanaia, Maluch, Harim, Meramath,

Obadiah, Daniel, Gennathon, Baruch, Mashulam, verse 7, Abijah, Mijam, Mijam, Mijamae, B belgai and shemaiah these were the priests we're going to get a

sort of a delineation of all of these who signed and sealed this oath this covenant this renewed

commitment which is how the chapter begins, where the narrative

had ended in the previous chapter.

This after the children of Israel had just experienced this revival, this renewal.

And now on the heels of this oath that they're making, they're going to seal it, and they do so in concert with what's believed to be the longest recorded prayer in all of Scripture, which we saw and studied in chapter 9 last week. It was a really interesting prayer. It just kind of recounted

and recalled all the grand and glorious things that God had done for his people in spite of the disobedience of his people.

We're going to see that again tonight as we get towards the end of the

chapter. So verses 1 through 8 we have this list of names. We're going to have another list of names

verses 9 through 27. And these are by name those who sign and sealed the oath and of course it's under the

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