Bible Fiber: Nehemiah 6
By Shelley Neese Subscribe to Bible Fiber on Youtube or follow wherever you listen to your podcasts In Nehemiah 6, the city wall was almost complete. All that remained was setting the doors in the gateways. With the window of intervention closing, Judah’s local...
Bible Fiber: Nehemiah 5
By Shelley Neese Subscribe to Bible Fiber on Youtube or Follow wherever you listen to your podcasts This week we are studying Nehemiah 5. Thematically, Nehemiah 5 is an awkward fit in the book, an insertion that interrupts an otherwise continuous narrative. The...
Bible Fiber: Nehemiah 4
By Shelley Neese Subscribe to Bible Fiber on Youtube or Follow on Apple or wherever you listen to your podcasts. This week we are studying Nehemiah 4, an extra dramatic passage that is mined more than any other chapter in Nehemiah for application that applies to the...
Bible Fiber: Nehemiah 3
By Shelley Neese Follow Bible Fiber on Youtube or wherever you listen to your podcasts This week we are reading Nehemiah 3. In chapter 3, Nehemiah paused his first-person narrative and inserted an archival record of the Jerusalem wall project. The perimeter of the...
Bible Fiber: Nehemiah 2
By Shelley Neese Follow Bible Fiber on Youtube or wherever you listen to your podcasts This week we are reading Nehemiah 2. We left off with Nehemiah on his knees, praying and fasting as he prepared to speak directly to the king on behalf of his people. Three months...
Bible Fiber: Nehemiah 1
By Shelley Neese Follow Bible Fiber wherever you listen to your podcasts or subscribe on Youtube We finished Ezra, and we are now launching our study of Nehemiah 1. Remember that in the Masoretic text, Ezra and Nehemiah were originally part of one scroll. Around the...
Bible Fiber: Ezra 10
By Shelley Neese Follow Bible Fiber on Youtube or wherever you listen to your podcasts In Ezra 10, his emotional reaction to the community’s guilt continued until they could finally resolve the remnant’s intermarriage crisis. In the words of the narrator, “Ezra prayed...
Bible Fiber: Ezra 9
By Shelley Neese Follow Bible Fiber on Youtube or wherever you listen to your podcasts . This week we are studying Ezekiel 9. Only four months after Ezra’s arrival (458 BCE), Judean officials reported to him that the returnees had violated God’s marriage laws by...
Bible Fiber: Ezra 8
By Shelley Neese Follow Bible Fiber on Youtube or wherever you listen to your podcasts! This week we are studying Ezra 8. God called Ezra to institute the worship of Yahweh through their sacred texts and obedience to God’s laws. The covenant provided their code of...
Bible Fiber: Ezra 7
By Shelley Neese Subscribe to Bible Fiber on Youtube or Follow it wherever you listen to your podcasts This week we are studying Ezra 7. Ezra is divided into two parts: Chapters 1-6 and Chapters 7-10. The first half recaps the initial return of the exiles to their...