Brian Fort

Lamentations 3:30

Lamentations 3:30 (NLT)
Let them turn the other cheek to those who strike them and accept the insults of their enemies.

Refusing to act

Isaiah 42:20 (NLT)
You see and recognize what is right but refuse to act on it. You hear with your ears, but you don’t really listen.”

Deuteronomy 33:24

Deuteronomy 33:24 (NLT)
Moses said this about the tribe of Asher: “May Asher be blessed above other sons; may he be esteemed by his brothers; may he bathe his feet in olive oil.

We can be without sin and blameless

Psalm 18:22 (NLT)
I have followed all his regulations; I have never abandoned his decrees.

Who may worship in God's sanctuary

Psalm 15:2-4 (NLT)
Those who lead blameless lives and do what is right, speaking the truth from sincere hearts.

God's name is known by those who search for Him

Psalm 9:10 (NLT)
Those who know your name trust in you, for you, OLORD, do not abandon those who search for you.

God is angry with us until repentance

Psalm 7:12 (NLT)
If a person does not repent, God will sharpen his sword; he will bend and string his bow.

Job sacrifices animals

Job 1:5 (NLT)
When these celebrations ended—sometimes after several days—Job would purify his children. He would get up early in the morning and offer a burnt offering for each of them. For Job said to himself, “Perhaps my children have sinned and have cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular practice.

Job was a blameless man

Job 1:1 (NLT)
There once was a man named Job who lived in the land of Uz. He was blameless—a man of complete integrity. He feared God and stayed away from evil.

Nehemiah guards against open sin

Nehemiah 13:19-21 (NLT)
Then I commanded that the gates of Jerusalem should be shut as darkness fell every Friday evening, not to be opened until the Sabbath ended. I sent some of my own servants to guard the gates so that no merchandise could be brought in on the Sabbath day.

Nehemiah mentions God's anger towards backsliders

Nehemiah 13:18 (NLT)
“Wasn’t it just this sort of thing that your ancestors did that caused our God to bring all this trouble upon us and our city? Now you are bringing even more wrath upon Israel by permitting the Sabbath to be desecrated in this way!”

Nehemiah rebukes backsliders (recently returned exiles)

Nehemiah 13:15-18 (NLT)
In those days I saw men of Judah treading out their winepresses on the Sabbath. They were also bringing in grain, loading it on donkeys, and bringing their wine, grapes, figs, and all sorts of produce to Jerusalem to sell on the Sabbath. So I rebuked them for selling their produce on that day.

Jews vow to use their best property for God

Nehemiah 10:37 (NLT)
We will store the produce in the storerooms of the Temple of our God. We will bring the best of our flour and other grain offerings, the best of our fruit, and the best of our new wine and olive oil. And we promise to bring to the Levites a tenth of everything our land produces, for it is the Levites who collect the tithes in all our rural towns.

Returning exiles make vows

Nehemiah 10:28-39 (NLT)
Then the rest of the people—the priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, Temple servants, and all who had separated themselves from the pagan people of the land in order to obey the Law of God, together with their wives, sons, daughters, and all who were old enough to understand—

Returning exiles promise obedience

Nehemiah 9:1-38 (NLT)
On October31 the people assembled again, and this time they fasted and dressed in burlap and sprinkled dust on their heads.

Ezra reads aloud the Law of Moses

Nehemiah 8:1-12 (NLT)
In print editions of the NLT, the second half of 7:73 (“In October, . . .”) is set at the beginning of chapter 8.all the people assembled with a unified purpose at the square just inside the Water Gate. They asked Ezra the scribe to bring out the Book of the Law of Moses, which the LORD had given for Israel to obey.

priests from exile that have no genealogical proof

Nehemiah 7:63-65 (NLT)
Three families of priests—Hobaiah, Hakkoz, and Barzillai—also returned. (This Barzillai had married a woman who was a descendant of Barzillai of Gilead, and he had taken her family name.)

Keep the gate doors shut, even when it's hot

Nehemiah 7:3 (NLT)
I said to them, “Do not leave the gates open during the hottest part of the day. And even while the gatekeepers are on duty, have them shut and bar the doors. Appoint the residents of Jerusalem to act as guards, everyone on a regular watch. Some will serve at sentry posts and some in front of their own homes.”

Nehemiah tempted by Jews

Nehemiah 6:1-19 (NLT)
Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies found out that I had finished rebuilding the wall and that no gaps remained—though we had not yet set up the doors in the gates.

Guarding Jerusalem while walls get rebuilt

Nehemiah 4:1-23 (NLT)
Sanballat was very angry when he learned that we were rebuilding the wall. He flew into a rage and mocked the Jews,

Ezra is Jesus

Ezra 7:27-28 (NLT)
Praise the LORD, the God of our ancestors, who made the king want to beautify the Temple of the LORD in Jerusalem!

King Artaxerxes is God, Ezra is Jesus

Ezra 7:25-26 (NLT)
“And you, Ezra, are to use the wisdom your God has given you to appoint magistrates and judges who know your God’s laws to govern all the people in the province west of the Euphrates River. Teach the law to anyone who does not know it.

God hand is with the obedient

Ezra 7:9-10 (NLT)
He had arranged to leave Babylon on April8, the first day of the new year, and he arrived at Jerusalem on August4, for the gracious hand of his God was on him.

punishment for blocking discipline

2 Chronicles 35:20-24 (NLT)
After Josiah had finished restoring the Temple, King Neco of Egypt led his army up from Egypt to do battle at Carchemish on the Euphrates River, and Josiah and his army marched out to fight him.

Gatekeepers

2 Chronicles 35:15 (NLT)
The musicians, descendants of Asaph, were in their assigned places, following the commands that had been given by David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun, the king’s seer. The gatekeepers guarded the gates and did not need to leave their posts of duty, for their Passover offerings were prepared for them by their fellow Levites.