Nehemiah 13

Meditation verse for the Book of Nehemiah chapter 13:

In chapter 13, we read about Nehemiah returning to Jerusalem and trying to fix and sanctify the people ways who went astray and turned away from God’s ways. People started to forget to pay their tithes, priests left their service and worked in their lands, people broke the sabbath and resumed the mixed marriages with pagan wives. 

In verse 14: we see how Nehemiah was faithful and stood up against the corruption in Jerusalem. We should obey God and be faithful even if we are the only one obeying Him, and if all the people around us resist us, but the power of God inside us will change their hearts. 

“Be __________until death and I will I will give you the ____________of life” (Revelation 2:10).

• Faithful, crown

• Loving, blessing

• Caring, gift

In whose book was it written that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever come into the assembly of God?

• The Book of Moses

• The Book of Daniel

• The Book of Joseph

1.     Please fill in the blank: “Because they had not met the children of Israel with …………. and water, but hired ……….. against them to curse them.”

• Love, Pharaoh

• Bread, Balaam

• Bread, soldiers

True or False: God turned the curse into blessing.

• True

• False

1.     Who was Eliashib, the priest, allied with?

• Tobiah

• Peter

• John

Please fill in the blanks: “So I contended with the rulers, and said, ‘Why is the house of …… forsaken?’”

• Tobiah

• Eliashib

• God

1.     Please fill in the banks: “Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and do not wipe out my ………… deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for its …………..”

• Good, services

• Sinful, unforgiveable

• Bad, a mistake

1.     Please fill in the blanks: “Did not your fathers do thus, and did not our God bring all this disaster on us and on this city? Yet you bring added wrath on …………. by profaning the ………….”.

• Jerusalem, law

• Egypt, rules

• Israel, Sabbath

How did Nehemiah pray for God to remember him and spare him?

• “According to the greatness of Your mercy”

• “According to my sins”

• “According to my deeds”

What was the name of the son of Eliashib the high priest?

• Sanballat

• Noah

• Joiada