Nehemiah 7

I don't have any insight from this chapter, I find the description of the vacant city after being built interesting and I always wonder his purpose for capturing lists of names like this one in the bible--is there something in that we are supposed to take away as value?

So on this Good Friday morning I turned to the Beth Moore study Gina and I are doing with some friends.  It lead me to this verse that I need to share with you as we continue to pray for Rich and his daughters (how old are they?)

Psalm 34 - 18 
The Lord is close to the brokenhearted
    and saves those who are crushed in spirit.

and another

Psalm 147 

2 The Lord builds up Jerusalem;  he gathers the exiles of Israel. 3 

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

In our study it was talking about God's response to the broken hearted and it listed two verses.  Ps34-18 immediately made me think of Rich. 

Then I turned to the second one listed Ps147 v3, but as I read it I glanced above it to v2 for some context and thought God is good.  He just put a nugget in for me too.  

I had just finished reading Nehemiah chapter 7, you see above I had no insights.  Yet a few minutes later while teaching me about his response to the broken hearted he just revealed a connection between Nehemiah and the rebuilding of Jerusalem and this verse in Psalms--I felt it was just a little knock on the head to say yes everything in these pages has a purpose and a connection, even the list of names...even if I don't get all the connections.

knut