0 Nehemiah Introduction

Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives? 13:27

Trivia: Why did Nehemiah pluck out the hair of Israelite men?

Nehemiah for Skeptics

Nehemiah might be even more boring than Ezra. Still, there are a couple things worth noting.

  • Check out the contradictions between the boring lists given in Ezra 2 and Neh.7.
  • Nehemiah rebukes the men for marrying "strange wives." To punish them he "contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair." 13:25-27

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