LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir

highlighted Nehemiah 5:13 ESV

I also shook out the fold of my garment and said, "So may God shake out every man from his house and from his labor who does not keep this promise. So may he be shaken out and emptied." And all the assembly said "Amen" and praised the Lord. And the people did as they had promised.

over 11 years ago

LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir

highlighted Nehemiah 5:12 ESV

Then they said, "We will restore these and require nothing from them. We will do as you say." And I called the priests and made them swear to do as they had promised.

over 11 years ago

LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir

highlighted Nehemiah 5:10-11 ESV

Moreover, I and my brothers and my servants are lending them money and grain. Let us abandon this exacting of interest.

over 11 years ago

LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir

highlighted Nehemiah 5:5-9 ESV

Now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards."

over 11 years ago

LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir

bookmarked Nehemiah 4 ESV

over 11 years ago

LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir

highlighted Nehemiah 4:22-23 ESV

I also said to the people at that time, "Let every man and his servant pass the night within Jerusalem, that they may be a guard for us by night and may labor by day."

over 11 years ago

LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir

highlighted Nehemiah 4:21 ESV

So we labored at the work, and half of them held the spears from the break of dawn until the stars came out.

over 11 years ago

LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir

highlighted Nehemiah 4:19-20 ESV

And I said to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, "The work is great and widely spread, and we are separated on the wall, far from one another.

over 11 years ago

LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir

highlighted Nehemiah 4:18 ESV

And each of the builders had his sword strapped at his side while he built. The man who sounded the trumpet was beside me.

over 11 years ago

LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir

highlighted Nehemiah 4:17 ESV

who were building on the wall. Those who carried burdens were loaded in such a way that each labored on the work with one hand and held his weapon with the other.

over 11 years ago

LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir

highlighted Nehemiah 4:16 ESV

From that day on, half of my servants worked on construction, and half held the spears, shields, bows, and coats of mail. And the leaders stood behind the whole house of Judah,

over 11 years ago

LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir

highlighted Nehemiah 4:15 ESV

When our enemies heard that it was known to us and that God had frustrated their plan, we all returned to the wall, each to his work.

over 11 years ago

LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir

highlighted Nehemiah 4:13-14 ESV

So in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in open places, I stationed the people by their clans, with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

over 11 years ago

LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir

highlighted Nehemiah 4:11-12 ESV

And our enemies said, "They will not know or see till we come among them and kill them and stop the work."

over 11 years ago

LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir

highlighted Nehemiah 4:9-10 ESV

And we prayed to our God and set a guard as a protection against them day and night.

over 11 years ago

LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir

highlighted Nehemiah 4:7-8 ESV

But when Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabs and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and that the breaches were beginning to be closed, they were very angry.

over 11 years ago

LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir

highlighted Nehemiah 4:6 ESV

So we built the wall. And all the wall was joined together to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.

over 11 years ago

LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir

highlighted Nehemiah 4:4-5 ESV

Hear, O our God, for we are despised. Turn back their taunt on their own heads and give them up to be plundered in a land where they are captives.

over 11 years ago

LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir

highlighted Nehemiah 3:12 ESV

Next to him Shallum the son of Hallohesh, ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, repaired, he and his daughters.

over 11 years ago

LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir

highlighted Nehemiah 2:19 ESV

But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite servant and Geshem the Arab heard of it, they jeered at us and despised us and said, "What is this thing that you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?"

over 11 years ago