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* MalignedMixedMarriage: Nehemiah in chapter 13 takes his own people to task because of their marriages with the people of other nations, reminding them of the sin King Solomon committed with his mixed marriages. This was sin due to idolatry, as culture and religion intertwined.
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* MalignedMixedMarriage: Nehemiah in chapter 13 takes his own people to task because of their marriages with the people of other nations, reminding them of the sin King Solomon committed with his mixed marriages. This was sin due to idolatry, as culture and religion were intertwined.
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* MalignedMixedMarriage: Nehemiah in chapter 13 takes his own people to task because of their marriages with the people of other nations, reminding them of the sin King Solomon committed with his mixed marriages.
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* MalignedMixedMarriage: Nehemiah in chapter 13 takes his own people to task because of their marriages with the people of other nations, reminding them of the sin King Solomon committed with his mixed marriages. This was sin due to idolatry, as culture and religion intertwined.
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* HappinessIsMandatory: Implied in Nehemiah's initial interaction with King Artaxerxes in chapter 2, as the king sees him sad and makes Nehemiah worry due to the Persian custom that being sad in the presence of the king as a court official meant you were displeased with the king, possibly to the point of rebellion, and that would mean a death sentence. Fortunately the king was benevolent enough to understand that Nehemiah's sadness had nothing to do with him, and so that gave Nehemiah the opportunity to explain the situation and to make his petition known.
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* HappinessIsMandatory: Implied in Nehemiah's initial interaction with King Artaxerxes in chapter 2, as the king sees him sad and makes Nehemiah worry due to the Persian custom that being sad in the presence of the king as a court official meant you were greatly displeased with the king, possibly to the point of rebellion, and that would mean a death sentence. Fortunately the king was benevolent enough to understand that Nehemiah's sadness had nothing to do with him, and so that gave Nehemiah the opportunity to explain the situation and to make his petition known.
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* TheGreatWall: The first half of Nehemiah is basically him working with the people of Jerusalem to get the wall around their city rebuilt. Their enemies don't like it and so they use all kinds of ploys to defeat its completion, but with the help of God, their plots fail and the wall is completed.
* HappinessIsMandatory: Implied in Nehemiah's initial interaction with King Artaxerxes in chapter 2, as the king sees him sad and makes Nehemiah worry due to the Persian custom that being sad in the presence of the king as a court official meant you were totally displeased with the king, possibly to the point of rebellion, and that would mean a death sentence. Fortunately the king was benevolent enough to understand that Nehemiah's sadness had nothing to do with him, and so that gave Nehemiah the opportunity to explain the situation and to make his petition known.
* HappinessIsMandatory: Implied in Nehemiah's initial interaction with King Artaxerxes in chapter 2, as the king sees him sad and makes Nehemiah worry due to the Persian custom that being sad in the presence of the king as a court official meant you were totally displeased with the king, possibly to the point of rebellion, and that would mean a death sentence. Fortunately the king was benevolent enough to understand that Nehemiah's sadness had nothing to do with him, and so that gave Nehemiah the opportunity to explain the situation and to make his petition known.
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* TheGreatWall: The first half of Nehemiah is basically him working with the people of Jerusalem to get the wall around their city rebuilt. Their enemies don't like it and so they use all kinds of ploys to defeat its completion, but with the help of God, their plots fail and the wall is completed.
* HappinessIsMandatory: Implied in Nehemiah's initial interaction with King Artaxerxes in chapter 2, as the king sees him sad and makes Nehemiah worry due to the Persian custom that being sad in the presence of the king as a court official meant you weretotally displeased with the king, possibly to the point of rebellion, and that would mean a death sentence. Fortunately the king was benevolent enough to understand that Nehemiah's sadness had nothing to do with him, and so that gave Nehemiah the opportunity to explain the situation and to make his petition known.
* HappinessIsMandatory: Implied in Nehemiah's initial interaction with King Artaxerxes in chapter 2, as the king sees him sad and makes Nehemiah worry due to the Persian custom that being sad in the presence of the king as a court official meant you were
