17 Nehemiah

Ruined

13 Isaiah 17:1-3
¹The prophecy concerning the fall of Damascus. Look, Damascus will cease to be a city, and it will be a ruinous heap.
²The cities of Aroer will be forsaken; they will be for flocks which will lie down in them, and no one will harm them.
³The might will also cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Aram will be like the glory of the sons of Israel says Yahvah of hosts.

17 Nehemiah 1:2-3
²that Hanani, one of my brothers, came, he and certain men of Judah; and I asked them concerning the remnant of the Jews who were left of the captivity and also concerning Jerusalem.
³And these men whom I asked said to me, The men who had escaped the captivity, look, they are there in the city, dwelling in misery and disgrace; the wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and its gates have been burned with fire.

Fasting/Famine

13 Isaiah 17:4
⁴And in that day it will come to pass that the glory of Jacob will wane, and the fatness of his flesh will wax lean.

17 Nehemiah 1:4
⁴When I heard these words, I sat down and wept and mourned for many days, and fasted and prayed before the god of the skies.

Gather

13 Isaiah 17:5-6
⁵And it will be as when the reaper harvests standing sheaves, and gathers the ears in his arms; and it will be as he that gathers ears in the valley of Rephaim.
⁶Yet gleaning will be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, 2 or 3 berries in the top of the uppermost bough, 4 or 5 on its outermost branches says Yahvah, god of Israel.

17 Nehemiah 1:8-9
⁸Remember now all the commandments which you commanded your servant Moses saying, If you transgress against me, I will scatter you among the nations;
⁹but if you turn to me and keep my laws and do them, then though your scattered ones were in the uttermost part of the skies, yet I will gather you from there and bring you to the place that I have chosen to set my name there.

Looking to God

13 Isaiah 17:7-8
⁷In that day a man will trust in his maker, and his eyes will look to the holy one of Israel.
⁸And he will not trust in the altars, the work of his hands and the work which his fingers have made, nor will he look at the idols nor the images.

17 Nehemiah 2:4-5
⁴Then the king said to me, For what did you make supplications and pray before the god of the skies?
⁵And I said to the king, If it please the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you would send me to Judah, to the city of David, to my fathers' sepulchres, that I may rebuild it.

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13 Isaiah 17:9-11
⁹In that day his strong cities will be like a desolate well, and like an emirate which was left destitute before the sons of Israel; so you will become a desolation.

¹⁰Because you have forgotten god your savior, and have not been mindful of the rock of your strength; therefore you will plant pleasant plants and will graft them with strange branches;
¹¹on the day that you plant them, they will put forth blossoms, and in the morning your seed will flourish, but the harvest will be a ruin in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

Raging

13 Isaiah 17:12
¹²Woe to the armies of many people, which make a noise like the roaring of the seas. And to the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters.

17 Nehemiah 2:10
¹⁰But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that a man came seeking the welfare of the sons of Israel.

Rebuked

13 Isaiah 17:13
¹³He will rebuke them, and they will flee far off and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like dry grass before the whirlwind.

17 Nehemiah 2:20-3:0
²⁰Then I answered them and said, The god of the skies has delivered us; therefore we are working, standing firm, and building; but you have no right nor memorial nor portion in Jerusalem.

Merchants

13 Isaiah 17:14-18:0
¹⁴And look, at evening time, violence; and before the morning they are no more. This is the portion of our oppressor, and the lot of those who plunder us.

17 Nehemiah 13:20-21
²⁰So the merchants and the sellers of all kinds of merchandise lodged outside Jerusalem once or twice.
²¹Then I testified against them, and said to them, Why do you not enter by the gate of the wall while the sun is still high? Now if you refuse to obey this command, I will punish you. From that time forth, they did not enter on the sabbath.

By Ryan Eaton
Posted Wednesday, Manasseh 18, 13000