Neh 5:14-19 | TNotes | STEP | Summary for Neh 5:14-19: 5:14-19 This section describes Nehemiah’s consistent policy of servant leadership and personal generosity. 5:14 This is the first mention of Nehemiah’s status as governor , a position not mentioned when the king first sent Nehemiah to Jerusalem. • Persia’s government officials usually drew an official food allowance from the local population, but Nehemiah and his associates instead purchased food out of their regular pay.

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‏ Nehemiah 5:14-19

Summary for Neh 5:14-19: 5:14-19 ^a This section describes Nehemiah’s consistent policy of servant leadership and personal generosity. 5:14 ^b This is the first mention of Nehemiah’s status as governor, a position not mentioned when the king first sent Nehemiah to Jerusalem.

• Persia’s government officials usually drew an official food allowance from the local population, but Nehemiah and his associates instead purchased food out of their regular pay.
5:15 ^c The former governors were probably Nehemiah’s immediate predecessors, not Sheshbazzar (Ezra 1:8 ^d, about ninety years earlier) or Zerubbabel (Hag 1:1 ^e, about eighty years earlier).
5:19 ^f Nehemiah’s prayer for God to remember and bless him was a sign of his dependence on God.