Today, I am reading and commenting on  Nehemiah 11-13.

Nehemiah left Jerusalem and later returned.  Upon his return he discovered that the Israelites had neglected the Temple, failed to continue to provide support so that the Levites could spend fulltime ministering to God, started to do business on the Sabbath, and married women from among the people’s around them who did not worship God (and who had not given up their idolatry).  All of these things were a violation of the covenant they had entered into upon completing the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem.  The covenant they were violating was not the one that their ancestors had entered into at Mount Sinai, even though it was a reaffirmation of that covenant.  This was something to which they themselves had agreed.  This passage should serve to remind us of how easy it is for us to fall away from following God’s commands when the spiritual high is over.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.