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    Bible - OT - Nehemiah: Nehemiah’s secret

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    A couple of thoughts inspired by grading a student paper on Nehemiah.

    First, the student, Courtney Wright, suggested that 2:9-20 form a chiasm, and that within this chiasm 2:11 and 2:17-18 match.  The first tells us that Nehemiah was in the city for three days, and verses 17-18 records Nehemiah’s exhortation to “rise up and build.”  The connection seems to be the third-day theme.  Symbolically if not literally on the third day Nehemiah initiates a “rising” and begins building.  Just like Jesus.

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    posted by Peter J. Leithart on Saturday, December 13, 2008 at 6:25 am

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