We hear it in the prayer of men like Ezra and Nehemiah and Daniel.
The way was long, but by the beginning of September Nehemiah arrived in Abydos.
Nehemiah condemns it as destructive to personal and civic freedom.
It is no more true now than in the times of David or Nehemiah.
A few years later another company was led by the patriot, Nehemiah.
The reverence with which Nehemiah listened to his views was touching and disconcerting.
Nehemiah was not an earth-man in gross contact with solidities.
How had Nehemiah lived during those first ten years in England?
The explanation only says, that Nehemiah finished the work which Ezra began.
At the head of this deputation was Hanani, a kinsman of Nehemiah.
masc. proper name, Jewish leader under Persian king Artaxerxes, from Hebrew Nehemyah, literally "the Lord comforts."
