Then my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles, the officials, and the people to be enrolled by genealogy. I found the genealogical register of those who had first returned, and I found the following written in it:
Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet no
To this end I also labor, striving with all His energy working powerfully within me.
These men searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as un
Blessed be the LORD, the God of our fathers, who has put into the heart of the king to so honor the house of the LORD in
Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.
So all Israel was recorded in the genealogies written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. But Judah was exiled to Babylo
O my God, remember Tobiah and Sanballat for what they have done, and also Noadiah the prophetess and the other prophets
These men searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as un
Remember me favorably, O my God, for all that I have done for this people.
But thanks be to God, who put into the heart of Titus the same devotion I have for you.
Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now even more in my absence, continu