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Nehemiah Tests 3.5 Credit Hours
Introduction Test
1. When did Nehemiah return to Jerusalem?
2. What was his title in Persian? What did it mean?
3. Who was still alive when Nehemiah returned to Jerusalem?
4. What do they call the 400 years after Jerusalem was rebuilt and why? With whom did that all end?
Chapter One Test
1. What is the month Chisleu?
2. What is meant by the twentieth year in verse one?
3. What two things did Nehemiah ask Hanani about?
4. What was Hanani’s response to both inquiries?
5. What was Nehemiah’s initial reaction?
6. What did Nehemiah do after that?
7. What is meant by Nehemiah that God keepeth covenant?
8. What was Nehemiah doing that God required before he would aid the Jews according to what he commanded Moses?
9. What was Nehemiah’s occupation in captivity?
Chapter Two Test
1. What is the month Nisan?
2.What was the king’s name that Nehemiah served?
3. What had Nehemiah never done before in front of the king?
4. Why possibly was Nehemiah afraid to answer the king?
5. What did the king say was wrong with Nehemiah?
6. What two things did Nehemiah say was the reason for his sadness?
7, What three things did Nehemiah request from the king?
8. What did the king want to know from Nehemiah?
9. Who did the king send with Nehemiah?
10. Who were the two people that were grieved that Nehemiah had returned to seek the welfare of the children of Israel and where were they from?
11. What was Nehemiah doing at Jerusalem during the night?
12. Did the rulers of Jerusalem know what Nehemiah was up to?
13. What did Nehemiah say that got the people to rally behind him?
14. What did Israel’s enemies say when they heard the words of Nehemiah?
15. What was Nehemiah’s response to them?
Chapter Three Test
1. Who built the sheep gate and what did they do to it when they finished?
2. What was said about the Tekoite Nobles?
Chapter Four Test
1. What was Sanballat’s responses to Israel’s rebuilding of the wall of Jerusalem?
2. What was Tobiah’s response?
3. How did Nehemiah pray to God concerning Israel’s enemies?
4. To what did Nehemiah say the reason was that the wall was built in verse 6?
5. What did the growing friends of Sanballat and Tobiah agree to do when they heard of Israel’s progress?
6. What was Nehemiah’s initial response to the threat?
7. What did Nehemiah do to ensure the city was defended at all times?
8. Where did the people sleep that lived outside the city gates while the rebuilding was going on?
9. Where did the workers have their swords while they were working?
10. How often did they put off their clothes?
Chapter Five Test
1. What had happened to many Jews at the hands of the their nobles?
2. What was Nehemiah’s response to this?
3. What were they commanded to “leave off” in their dealings with their countrymen?
4. What did Nehemiah tell the nobles to restore to the people?
5. Who was appointed to be their governor for twelve years?
Chapter Six Test
1. What did Sanballat and Tobiah want to do to Nehemiah?
2. What was Nehemiah’s response to Sanballat and Tobiah’s request to meet them in Ono?
3. How many times did they ask Nehemiah to meet with them?
4. What did Sanballat’s letter say in his fifth attempt to deter Nehemiah?
5. What did Nehemiah tell Shemaiah concerning Nehemiah’s need to hide in the temple of God?
6. Who hired Shemaiah to tell Nehemiah that?
7. How many days did it take to complete the wall?
8. Who was Tobiah related to in Israel and how?
Chapter Seven Test
1. Why did Nehemiah instruct those in charge over Jerusalem to leave the new gates locked until the sun be hot?
2. What did God put into Nehemiah’s heart and why?
3. What happened to the people that could not shew their father’s house?
4. What notable person is mentioned in that list?
5. What did Tirshatha say they needed to wait for before some could eat from the most holy things?
6. How many people were counted by Nehemiah?
Chapter Eight Test
1. What did Ezra the priest read before the people?
2. How long did he read it?
3. What day did he read before them?
4.What did Ezra read from behind?
5. What did the people do when Ezra opened the book?
6. What does verses 7 and 8 say they gave and caused the people to do?
7. What happened to the people when they heard what was read?
8. Why were the people told to make mirth on this day and to send portions?
9. What did they discover in the book on the second day of study in verse 14?
10. What did the people use to build booths with upon their houses?’
11. How long had it been since Israel had done such a thing?
Chapter Nine Test
1. What happened on the 24th day of the seventh month and why did it happen?
2. How long each day were they reading the book of the law?
3. What else were they doing for the same amount of time afterwards?
4. What did the Levites do once half the day was gone in verses 5-38?
5. When did Israel learn about the sabbath day(s)?
6. What did it mean to seal the covenant in verse 38?
Chapter Ten Test
1. What is the Tirshatha?
2. What did all the people enter into on that day in verse 29?
3. What did they pledge to do as a nation?
4. Who in the new testament cast lots and was selected to burn incense in the temple?
5. Where did the Levites take the tithes to be stored?
6. Who was the tithe for?
Chapter Eleven Test
1. How did the people decide what ten percent of the population would live in Jerusalem?
2. What are the only three tribes mentioned in the whole book of Nehemiah?
Chapter Twelve Test
1. Why did the tribe of Levi side with Judah and Benjamin often?
2. Briefly describe what happened at the dedication of the walls in Jerusalem?
Chapter Thirteen Test
1. What did they read in the book of Moses on that day of dedication?
2. What was separated from Israel on that day?
3. Who was allied with Tobiah and how?
4. What did Tobiah have in the house of God prepared for him?
5. Where was Nehemiah while Tobiah was in the house of God?
6. What did Nehemiah do with Tobiah’s stuff?
7. What was put in their place?
8. What had happened to the Levites and the singers?
9. What did Nehemiah do to the rulers?
10. What did Nehemiah see happening on the sabbath day?
11. What did Nehemiah remind the rulers that God did to Israel because of this in the past?
12. What did Nehemiah do to enforce the sabbath laws on the people inside Jerusalem’s gates?
13. What did Nehemiah threaten to do if the merchants and sellers continued to lodge outside the gates on the sabbath?
14. What did Nehemiah do to all who had married strange (Gentile) wives?
15. Who were the most notable violators of this in Israel’s day and in Nehemiah’s day 26-28?
