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  1. The Holy City<\/em>. Perhaps we are already used to the epithet <\/span>Yerushalayim Ir Hakodesh<\/span><\/i>, the holy city of Jerusalem, but it appears for the first time here in verse 1, and will only appear one more time in the Tanach, in another 476 chapters in Nehemiah 11.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Uncircumcised, impure<\/em>. Twice in the chapter there is a separation from impurity. In the message to Jerusalem, that \u201cthe uncircumcised and the unclean Shall never enter you again\u201d (verse 1), and in the call to those returning to Zion to keep far from uncleanness in Babylon, \u201cTurn, turn away, touch naught unclean As you depart from there\u201d (verse 11). If we remember that the people returning to Zion were coming back to rebuild the Temple, we can understand more fully the role that purity and impurity had for the prophet and his audience.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. For free<\/em>. \u201cYou were sold for no price, And shall be redeemed without money\u201d (verse 3). Exile is enslavement, being sold into slavery. But the nature of redemption is colored by the fact that there was no actual sale. God doesn\u2019t owe the nations anything in order to redeem the people.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. The watchmen and the herald<\/em>. These two imagined figures, the watchman on the walls, and the herald, skipping over the mountains, connect Babylon with Jerusalem. They connect the message with the reality, and in song and movement \u201cAnnouncing happiness, Heralding good fortune, Announcing victory\u2026\u201d It\u2019s quite a picture.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. The servant of God<\/em>. Who is the servant of God this time? 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