CHAPTER 1

1. What grieved Nehemiah?
2. What position did Nehemiah have to the king?

1. What king sent Nehemiah on his way to rebuild Jerusalem?
2. Who opposed Nehemiah coming to help the children of Israel?

1. What did the adversaries conspire to do against the builders?
2. How did Nehemiah and his builders protect themselves from the adversaries?

1. a. What were some of the people of Israel doing against their brethren? b. What did Nehemiah do to solve this problem?

1. What did the adversaries threaten to do if Nehemiah did not stop building?
2. Why would Nehemiah not go into the temple with Shemaiah?

1. a. Who read from the book of the law of Moses before Israel? b. How did he read before the people? c. Why was he reading the law?
2. Why did the people weep when hearing the law read?
3. What did the people renew doing as a remembrance of how God took care of their forefathers in the wilderness?

1. a. How long did the people read the book of the Law? b. How long did they confess and worship to the Lord their God?
2. What covenant did the people make?

1. How much was given by each person for the service of the house of the Lord?
2. How was the wood provider for the burnt offerings chosen?
3. How often was the firstfruit of all produce brought to the house of the Lord?
4. What did the Levites receive from the farming communities?
5. What were the Levite priests to do with some of the tithes that they received?

1. How were the people choosen who would dwell in the city of Jerusalem?
2. What two groups did Nehemiah station along the walls of Jerusalem?

1. What people were removed from the multitude of Israel?
2. What did Nehemiah enforce for the Sabbaths?
3. How did Nehemiah put a stop to the merchants who waited outside the door?
4. What did Nehemiah do to some of the people who had married foreign women?