169 | Confession and covenant (Nehemiah 9-10)

It's roughly 445 BCE. Jerusalem has had its walls rebuilt after lying in ruins for approximately 140 years. The Jewish community there is not an independent nation — they're a province of the Persian Empire. They pay taxes to a king they didn't choose, and they're living in the long shadow of the Babylonian exile, which destroyed their city, their Temple, and their sense of who they were as a people. Recovery is happening, but slowly. The weight of history hasn't gone anywhere.Source:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m_BnStuTZ39EdVhxw6syK200OXYXnxIB/view?usp=sharing