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WorksheetsNehemiah 5-8
Total questions: 74
Worksheet time: 39mins
According to Nehemiah 5:1, Who did the people have a great cry against?
Nehemiah
their Jewish brethern
Sanballat, Tobiah, and Geshem
Why were the people taking up corn for themselves, their sons, and their daughters? 5:2
Because the king had commanded them to
To store up for winter because of the famine
So they could eat and live.
• According to Nehemiah 5:3, The people said they had mortgaged their lands, and _________, and their houses, so they could buy corn? 5:3
vineyards
olive yards
none of the above
According to Nehemiah 5:4, Some people said they had borrowed money for _________ that was placed on their lands and vineyards?
Kings tribute (tax)
grain
corn
According to Nehemiah 5:5, Why couldn't the people redeem back their sons and daughters who had been been taken into slavery?
They had already been redeemed by other Jews
Other people owned their lands and vineyards
The slave owners would not sell them back to the previous owners.
What made Nehemiah angry? 5:6
The building on the wall was hindered
The usury ( interest) and also the people had to mortgage their land
That he had not eaten the bread of the Governor
Although Nehemiah was angry what did he do before speaking to the nobles and the rulers about the mortgages and the taxes people were suffering? 5:7
Consulted with himself
went back to the people and discussed it with them
Held his peace
Who had just been redeemed (bought back) from other nations? 5:8
The nobles
The rulers
Their brethren the Jews
• According to Nehemiah 5:10, What did Nehemiah ask the leaders and rulers to stop doing?
Stop charging usury
Stop selling the people into slavery
Stop charging them for corn
According to Nehemiah 5:11, When did Nehemiah want the leaders and rulers to restore the lands, vineyards, olive groves, and houses of the Jewish people that they had taken as usury on debts
Today
Within a week
Tomorrow
According to Nehemiah 5:12, How much did the leaders and elders say they would require of the people who were indebted to them?
1/100th
1%
Nothing
According to Nehemiah 5:13, Nehemiah asked God to shake out each man from his ______, and his _______, if that person did not keep the promise to the people?
From his house
From his lap
From his labour
From his vinyards, olive yards, and land
According to Nehemiah 5:14, Over what land was Nehemiah appointed to be their governor?
Persia
Judah
Jerusalem
• According to Nehemiah 5:15, Whom did Nehemiah say put burdens on the people, and took from them bread and wine, and forty shekels of silver?
The former governors before him
The rulers and the nobles
King Artaxerxes
• According to Nehemiah 5:16, All of Nehemiah's servants were gathered for what?
Continued mourning, fasting, and praying
Continuing work on the wall
The Feast of the Tabernacle.
Who ate at Nehemiah's table other than the 150 Jews and rulers? 5:17
Those among them from the heathen nations
The poor
The former governors
• According to Nehemiah 5:18, Six of what animal were prepared for Nehemiah to serve to his workers every day
Sheep
Oxen
Fowls
• According to Nehemiah 5:19, How did Nehemiah want God to remember him?
Godly
for good because of all he had done for the people
As a hard worker for the people
According to Nehemiah 6:1, Even though there were no breaks in the walls, what still needed to be done?
Nothing, it was complete
The doors needed to be set on the gates
The breaches needed to be closed
According to Nehemiah 6:2, Sanballat and Geshem wanted to meet Nehemiah in the villages located where?
in the plain of Ono
The mountains of Judah
The plain of Jerusalem
According to Nehemiah 6:3, How did Nehemiah communicate with Sanballat and Geshem, to say he could not meet with them?
An open letter
Messengers
Fed Ex
According to Nehemiah 6:3, Why didn't Nehemiah want to go down and meet with Sanballat and Geshem?
Because the people were afraid without him.
The people were afraid he would be killed
The work would cease to be done on the wall
According to Nehemiah 6:4, How did Nehemiah respond to Sanballat and Geshem the four times they asked him to come and meet with them?
The same as the first time they asked him. He refused
He would be there as soon as the wall was finished
He would come as soon as he could
According to Nehemiah 6:5, What did Sanballat's servant have in his hand on the fifth time he came to Nehemiah?
A sealed letter
An open letter
An open note
According to Nehemiah 6:6, What did the letter from Sanballat say Nehemiah's ultimate goal was to be?
Cupbearer
Chief priest
King of Judah
According to Nehemiah 6:6, In the letter, what was Geshem telling everyone the Jews were planning on doing?
Rebel
Allowing false teachers to teach in the temple
Appointing false teachers as priests
According to Nehemiah 6:6, What did the letter from Sanballat say Nehemiah was doing, as so called "proof" he was going to rebel, and be the king of the Jews.
Building the wall
Appointing false prophets
Planning a rebellion
According to Nehemiah 6:7, What was Sanballat threatening to report to the king, unless Nehemiah agreed to meet with him?
Appointing gatekeepers to keep the gates closed at night
Appointed people to go into the temple that were not Levites
Nehemiah was appointing prophets to say he was the King.
According to Nehemiah 6:8, True or False? After Nehemiah got the 5th request, he agreed to meet Sanballat and Geshem to discuss the idea of rebelling.
True
False
According to Nehemiah 6:9, What did Nehemiah ask God to do for him?
Strengthen his faith
Strengthen his arms
Strengthen his hands
• According to Nehemiah 6:10, To whose house did Nehemiah come?
Shellah
Sheena
Shemaiah
Why did Shemaiah tell Nehemiah they needed to meet in the temple behind closed doors? 6:10
To offer sacrifices
To fast and pray
Because people were trying to kill him.
According to Nehemiah 6:10, When did Shemaiah think someone was going to kill Nehemiah?
Midday
Daybreak
Night
According to Nehemiah 6:12, Had God sent Shemaiah to warn Nehemiah that he was going to be killed?
Yes
No
How had Sanballat and Tobiah been behind the message that Shemaiah sent to Nehemiah? 6:12
They had bullied him into making a false prophecy
They had paid him money
They had threatened to kill his family
• According to Nehemiah 6:13, Nehemiah thought he would be doing what, if he fled to the temple to save his life?
obeying the Lord
Sinning
Deceiving the people
According to Nehemiah 6:14, How did Nehemiah want God to remember Tobiah and Sanballat and the prophetess Noadiah?
According to God's will
According to their purpose
According to their works
• According to Nehemiah 6:15, On what day of Elul was the wall finished?
5th
4th
2nd
25th
According to Nehemiah 6:16, Whom did the nations around Israel credit for getting the wall rebuilt so quickly?
God
Nehemiah
The guards guarding the wall
The gatekeepers
According to Nehemiah 6:17, Who was sending letters to Tobiah during this time of the wall being built and just afterwards?
The nobles of Jerusalem
The nobles of Judah
The nobles of Ono
• According to Nehemiah 6:18 Why were many people in Judah sworn to Tobiah?
Because he was a priest
His father-in-law was Shechaniah
His mother was Naomi
His daughter-in-law was the daughter of Meshullam
According to Nehemiah 6:19, What were people saying about Tobiah to Nehemiah?
They were reporting his evil plans
They were speaking of money he had stolen
They were reporting his good deeds
According to Nehemiah 7:1, What are the three jobs Nehemiah had appointed?
Appointed the porters (gatekeepers)
Appointed the chief priests and scribes
Appointed the singers
Appointed the Levites
According to Nehemiah 7:2, Why did Nehemiah make Hananiah the leader of the palace?
He was faithful
He feared God more than most
He had worked hard rebuilding the wall
His family were nobles
According to Nehemiah 7:3, When did Nehemiah tell Hananiah to let the gates of Jerusalem be opened?
When the sun went down
Daybreak
When the sun was hot
According to Nehemiah 7:3, What were the guards supposed to do while they were standing guard?
Guard the temple
Shut the gates
Bar the gates
Guard only Hanani and Hananiah
According to Nehemiah 7:4, Nehemiah said the city was large and spacious, but the people were few, and what about the houses?
They had not been rebuilt
They had begun to rebuild
There were several empty
How did Nehemiah know he should rekon the people by genealogy? 7:5
The nobles had advised him to do it
God put it in his heart
The people wanted him to do it after the wall was finished.
According to Nehemiah 7:6, Who was the king of Babylon who had carried away all these people who were now returning to Jerusalem?
Jerrubel
Agrippa
Nebuchadnezzar
Artaxerxes
• According to Nehemiah 7:63,and 7:64, Since the sons of Habaiah, the sons of Koz, and the sons of Barzillai could not find their listing among those who were registered by genealogy, from what were they excluded?
The priesthood
The Levites
Jerusalem
According to Nehemiah 7:65, The governor said to the sons of Habaiah, the sons of Koz, and the sons of Barzillai that they could not do what, until a priest could consult with the Urim and Thumim?
Eat of the most holy things
Take communion
Worship
What does Tirshatha mean?
Leader
Teacher
Governor
• According to Nehemiah 7:66, what group totaled forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty?
Workers on the wall
The entire congregation
The gatekeepers
According to Nehemiah 7:70, who gave to the treasury one thousand gold drams, fifty basons, and five hundred and thirty priestly garments?
Tobiah and the nobles
The chief priests
The Tirshatha
In what month were the children of Israel in their cities? 7:73
Fourth
Seventh
Eighth
First
• According to Nehemiah 8:1, Where did everybody gather to hear Ezra read the Law
The street before the East Gate
The street before the Sheep Gate
The street before the Water Gate
Which words below describe Ezra in 8:1-2?
Leader
Scribe
Priest
Teacher
According to Nehemiah 8:3, How long did Ezra read the law to the people on the first day of the seventh month?
from morning to night
Daybreak to Sunset
from morning to midday
According to Nehemiah 8:4, Was the platform on which Ezra was standing ever used before?
Yes
No
According to Nehemiah 8:5, What did Ezra do in the sight of all the people?
Opened the book
Read the book
Sing praises to the Lord
According to Nehemiah 8:6, What did all the people answer back to Ezra after he blessed the Lord, the great God?
Praise the Lord
Bless you this day
Amen
According to Nehemiah 8:7,Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, translated or helped the people to understand the law.
True
False
According to Nehemiah 8:9, Who, along with Ezra the priest and scribe, told the people not to cry, when they heard the words of the law?
Nehemiah
Priests
Levites
Singers
• According to Nehemiah 8:10, Why did Nehemiah and Ezra tell the people to "go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared"?
It was a day of rejoicing
The day was holy to the Lord
there was no crying allowed on this day.
According to Nehemiah 8:10, Nehemiah and Ezra told the people not to do what, but instead to have the joy of the Lord as their strength?
Disobey the Tirshatha
Disobey the commands in the book of the Law
be sorry
According to Nehemiah 8:10, What did Ezra and Nehemiah encourage the people to use as their strength, and not be sad?
The joy of the Lord
The joy of the law
The joy of the day
According to Nehemiah 8:11, What did the Levites say to the people, in addition to, " for the day is holy; do not be grieved."
Do not weep
Do not mourn
do not be grieved
According to Nehemiah 8:12, What is the reason that the people went away rejoicing, after the Levites encouraged them?
They loved the Lord
Nehemiah asked them to
They understood the words they had been taught
According to Nehemiah 8:13, Why did the chiefs of the fathers' houses, and the priests and Levites go talk to Ezra on the second day of the seventh month?
To learn how to teach and read the law as Ezra had done
To understand the words of the Law
The Tirshatha had commanded them to do this
According to Nehemiah 8:14, What did the Lord command by Moses, that the people should do during the feast of the seventh month?
The Israelites should dwell in booths
The Israelites should dwell in tents
Fast
Weep
According to Nehemiah 8:15, Where did Nehemiah tell them to make the announcement that they would be making booths that year for the Feast of Tabernacles?
All their cities
All of Judea
All of Jerusalem
None of the above
Which of the options listed below was not a place the people built their booths?
The street of the sheep gate
on their roofs of their homes
in their courts
in the courts of the House of God
According to Nehemiah 8:17, What did the whole assembly of the people who had returned from the captivity do, that hadn't been done since the days of Joshua the son of Nun?
Celebrate the Feast of the Tabernacle
Build booths to sit under
Eat the sweet and send food to those who didn't have any
According to Nehemiah 8:18, What did the people have on the eighth day, after they had kept the Feast of Tabernacles seven days?
An assembly
A great feast
They had a great singing before the Water Gate
