Class Notes on Sacred History
Volume II: First Samuel through Nehemiah.
J. W. McGarvey (1893)
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NEHEMIAH.


§ I. NEHEMIAH OBTAINS PERMISSION TO REBUILD
JERUSALEM. i. 1-ii. 20.

1. He Is Distressed about the Condition of the City and the
People. i. 1-11.

2. His Request Is Granted. ii. 1-8.
3. His Journey, and a Secret Examination of the Ruins. 9-16.

4. His Purpose Made Known, and the Enemy Excited. 17-20.

§ II. THE WALLS REBUILT. iii. 1-iv. 23.

1. The Work Distributed in Forty-two Sections. iii. 1-32.

2. The Enemies Mock, and Nehemiah prays. iv. 1-6.
3. A Plot of the Enemy Defeated. 7-15.
4. Precaution against an Attack. 16-23.
§ III. OPPRESSION OF THE POOR BROKEN UP. v. 1-19.

1. Complaints of Suffering and Usury. v. 1-5.

2. The Evil Corrected. 6-13. [134]
3. Nehemiah's Own Example. 14-19.
§ IV. THE PLOTTINGS OF THE ENEMY. vi. 1-vii. 4.

1. A Conference Requested. vi. 1-4.

2. A False Charge Presented. 5-9.
3. Treacherous Counsel within the City. 10-14.
4. Treacherous Correspondence with Tobiah. 15-19.
5. The City carefully Guarded. vii. 1-4.
§ V. THE GENEALOGY OF ZERUBBABEL'S CARAVAN.
vii. 5-73.
§ VI. THE READING OF THE LAW. viii. 1-18.

1. The Time, the Place and The Reading. viii. 1-3.

2. The Method of Procedure. 4-8.
3. The People Comforted. 9-12.
4. The Feast of Tabernacles Observed. 13-18. [136]
§ VII. A CONFESSION OF SINS AND A COVENANT. ix. 1-x. 39.

1. A Penitent Assembly. ix. 1-3.

2. A Prayer of the Levites. 4-33.
3. The Parties Who Sealed the Covenant. x. 1-29.
4. The Statutes Which They Covenanted To Keep. 30-39.
§ VIII. A REPEOPLING OF JERUSALEM. xi. 1-36.

1. The Plan Adopted. xi. 1, 2.

2. A Register of the Chiefs in the City. 3-24.

3. The Cities of Judah and Benjamin at This Time Inhabited.
25-36.

§ IX. THE DEDICATION OF THE WALLS. xii. 1-47.

1. A Register of Priests and Levites. xii. 1-26.

2. The Walls Are Dedicated. 27-43.
3. Keepers of Tithes Appointed. 44-47.

§ X. CERTAIN REFORMS EFFECTED BY NEHEMIAH. xiii. 1-31.

1. Separation from the Moabites and Ammonites. xiii. 1-3.

2. An Unlawful Privilege of Tobiah Broken Up. 4-9.
3. Neglected Tithes Restored. 10-14.
4. Sabbath-breaking Broken Up. 15-22.
5. Heathen Marriages Broken Up. 23-31.


REVIEW.
NEHEMIAH.

MALACHI. i. 1-iv. 6.

1. The Time of This Prophecy?

(1.) After the temple service had been restored. i. 10; iii. 10.

(2.) In a time of unlawful marriages. ii. 11. [140]

(3). When the tithes had been withheld. iii. 8-10.

2. Its Design?

(1.) To support the reforms of Nehemiah. Neh. xiii. 1-31.

(2.) A Messianic prediction. iv. 1-6. [141]

[CNSH2 133-141]


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