Build the Walls of Jerusalem
Questions for Study 2

Nehemiah 3:1-4:23
Memory Verse: 4

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I. The Workers (3:1-32)

1. As work began on the walls and gates what did the nobles of Tekoa do? (1-5) Who helped the ruler of a half-district of Jerusalem? (6-12) What is noted about Baruch work? (13-21) Where craft smiths and priests exempt from the word? (22-32) How is this an inspiration to us in the gospel work? (Phil. 1:27-30)

II. Opposition (4:1-15)

2. Who was Sanballat and what did he do? (1-2) Who was Tobiah and what did he do? (3) Why is it when we work for the Lord such people seem to appear? (Luke 21:12-19)

3. What did the workers do when opposition came? (4-5) What is remarkable about the characteristic of their labor? (6)

4. Was their enemies deterred? (7-8, 11) What other problem arouse? (10) How did the workers respond? (9, 12-13) What can be learned? (1 Cor. 15:58)

5. What did Nehemiah remind to people? (15) Who would they fight for? How did the people respond?

III. Rebuilding the Walls (4:16-23)

6. How did they split the labor (16-18a)

7. Who did Nehemiah have with him as he oversaw the work? (18b) What was his purpose? (19-20) Like them how long will we continue the gospel work? (1 Cor. 15:51-52)

8. Why was it necessary to have a trumpeter? How is this like the gospel work? (Matt. 7:13-14, 9:37-38)

9. How long did they work? (21) What did they do at night? (22) How should this be an inspiration to us?

10. Why might they not take off their clothes? How did Paul use a similar example in Ephesians 6:10-13?