THE TEMPLE

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THE TEMPLE

• SOLOMONS TEMPLE
• SOLOMON FINISHED THE TEMPLE (959 BC)?
• DESTROYED BY NEBUCHADNEZZAR (586 BC)?
• ZERUBBABELS TEMPLE
• RECONSTRUCTION UNDER CYRUS (536 BC)?
• BUILDING CEASES UNDER ARTAXERXES (17 YEARS)?
• BUILDING CONTINUES UNDER DARIUS (519 BC)?
• TEMPLE COMPLETED UNDER DARIUS (516 BC)?
• (516-458 BC)?
• HERODS TEMPLE
• CONSTRUCTION BEGAN (20 BC)?
• COMPLETED 46 YEARS (JOHN 220) (64 AD)?

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CHRONOLOGY OF BOOKS

• OBADIAH (605-585 BC)?
• EZEKIEL (593-571 BC)?
• DANIEL (605-530 BC)?
• EZRA (538-457 BC)?
• ZECHARIAH (520-480 BC)?
• ESTHER (479-478 BC)?
• NEHEMIAH (445-432 BC)?
• MALACHI (440-430 BC)?

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BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY

• NEBUCHADNEZZAR DANIEL 11 (539 BC)?
• CYRUS EZRA 1-3 (538-537 BC)?
• AHASUERUS EZRA 4 (7 MONTHS) (537 BC)?
• DARIUS EZRA 5-6 (536-516 BC)?
• QUEEN ESTHER ESTHER 2-10 (479-478 BC)?
• ARTAXERXES LONGIMANUS (465-424 BC)?
• EZRA 7-10 (458-457 BC)?
• NEHEMIAH 1-13 (445-432 BC)?

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PEOPLE TO REMEMBER

• NEBUCHADNEZZAR - DESTROYED JERUSALEM (586 BC)?
• ARTAXERXES - KING OF PERSIA 465-425 BC?
• LONGIMANUS - SON OF XERXES
• NEHEMIAH - COMFORTED OF YAHWEH
• SON OF HACHALIAH - BROTHER OF HANANI 445-433 BC?
• ADVERSARIES OF NEHEMIAH
• SANBALLAT THE HORONITE - GOVERNOR OF SAMARIA
• TOBIAH THE AMMONITE - JOINT GOVERNOR WITH
  SANBALLAT
• GESHEM THE ARAB - CHIEF OF THE ARABS IN SAMARIA
• ELIASHIB THE HIGH PRIEST
• EZRA THE PRIEST - THE SCRIBE

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OUTLINE NEHEMIAH CHAPTER NINE

• THEY FAST AND CONFESS THEIRS SINS TO THE LORD V.
  1-3
• LEVITES GIVE ACCOUNT OF GOD'S KINDNESS AND
• FORBEARANCE AND GOD'S MERCIES AND JUDGMENTS V.
  4-37
• THEY MAKE A COVENANT WITH THE LORD V. 38

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READ NEHEMIAH 91-3

• 1 On the twenty-fourth day of this month the
  children of Israel were assembled with fasting,
  in sackcloth, and with dust on their heads.
• 2 Those of Israelite lineage separated themselves
  from all foreigners and they stood and confessed
  their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.
• 3 They stood up in their place and read from the
  Book of the Law of the LORD their God for
  one-fourth of the day and for another fourth
  they confessed and worshiped the LORD their God.

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 91-3

• 1 On the twenty-fourth day of this month the
  children of Israel were assembled with fasting,
  in sackcloth, and with dust on their heads.
• WHAT DID ISRAEL DO ON THE 24TH DAY?
• WHY FASTING, SACKCLOTH AND DUST?
• READ ISAIAH 585 ZECHARIAH 75

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 91-3

• WHY FASTING, SACKCLOTH AND ASHES?
• READ ISAIAH 585
• 5 Is it a fast that I have chosen, a day for a
  man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his
  head like a bulrush, and to spread out sackcloth
  and ashes? Would you call this a fast, and an
  acceptable day to the LORD? (NKJ)
• READ ZECHARIAH 75
• 5 Say to all the people of the land, and to the
  priests When you fasted and mourned in the fifth
  and seventh months during those seventy years,
  did you really fast for Me-- for Me? (NKJ)

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 91-3

• 2 Those of Israelite lineage separated themselves
  from all foreigners. And they stood and confessed
  their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.
• WHAT DID THEY CONFESS?
• WHO DID THE SEPARATE THEMSELVES FROM?
• READ EZRA 103
• 3 .Let us make a covenant with our God to put
  away all these wives and those who have been born
  to them, according to the advice of my master and
  of those who tremble at the commandment of our
  God and let it be done according to the
  law. (NKJ)

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 91-3

• 3 They stood up in their place and read from the
  Book of the Law of the LORD their God for
  one-fourth of the day and for another fourth
  they confessed and worshiped the LORD their God.
• WHAT ELSE DID THEY DO ON THE 24TH DAY?
• HOW LONG DID THE READ FROM THE BOOK OF LAW?
• HOW LONG DID THEY MAKE CONFESSION?

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READ NEHEMIAH 94-5

• 4 Then Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni,
  Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani stood on the stairs
  of the Levites and cried out with a loud voice to
  the LORD their God.
• 5 The Levites, Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah,
  Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah,
  said "Stand up and bless the LORD your God
  forever and ever! "Blessed be Your glorious name,
  which is exalted above all blessing and praise!

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 94-5

• 4 Then Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni,
  Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani stood on the stairs
  of the Levites and cried out with a loud voice to
  the LORD their God.
• WHO WERE THESE MEN? LEVITES?
• SEE NEXT VERSE
• WHAT DID THEY DO?

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 94-5

• 5 The Levites, Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah,
  Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah,
  said "Stand up and bless the LORD your God
  forever and ever! "Blessed be Your glorious name,
  which is exalted above all blessing and praise!
• WHO WERE THESE MEN? LEVITES?
• (SOME OF THE SAME MEN IN VERSE 4)
• WHAT DID THEY SAY?
• HOW DOES ONE BLESS THE LORD?

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READ NEHEMIAH 96-8

• 6 You alone are the LORD you have made heaven,
  the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the
  earth and everything on it, the seas and all that
  is in them, and You preserve them all. The host
  of heaven worships You.
• 7 You are the LORD God, who chose Abram, and
  brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans, and gave
  him the name Abraham
• 8 You found his heart faithful before You, and
  made a covenant with him to give the land of the
  Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the
  Perizzites, the Jebusites, and the Girgashites--
  to give it to his descendants. You have performed
  Your words, for You are righteous.

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 96-8

• 6 You alone are the LORD you have made heaven,
  the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the
  earth and everything on it, the seas and all that
  is in them, and You preserve them all. The host
  of heaven worships You.
• WHY DID THE LORD DO THESE THINGS?
• READ ECCLESIASTES 314
• 14 I know that whatever God does, it shall be
  forever. Nothing can be added to it, and nothing
  taken from it. God does it, that men should fear
  before Him. (NKJ)

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 96-8

• 6 You alone are the LORD you have made heaven,
  the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the
  earth and everything on it, the seas and all that
  is in them, and You preserve them all. The host
  of heaven worships You.
• WHO ARE THE HOST OF HEAVEN?
• WHO SHOULD WORSHIP THE LORD?
• READ PSALMS 10321
• 21 Bless the LORD, all you His hosts, you
  ministers of His, who do His pleasure. (NKJ)

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 96-8

• 7 You are the LORD God, who chose Abram, and
  brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans, and gave
  him the name Abraham
• WHO IS ABRAM? ABRAHAM?
• READ GENESIS 175
• 5 No longer shall your name be called Abram, but
  your name shall be Abraham for I have made you a
  father of many nations. (NKJ)
• READ ISAIAH 512
• 2 Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who
  bore you for I called him alone, and blessed him
  and increased him. (NKJ)

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 96-8

• 8 You found his heart faithful before You, and
  made a covenant with him to give the land of the
  Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the
  Perizzites, the Jebusites, and the Girgashites--
  to give it to his descendants. You have performed
  Your words, for You are righteous.
• WHY DID THE LORD CHOOSE ABRAHAM?
• WHAT DID THE LORD GIVE TO ABRAHAM?
• SEE DEUTERONOMY 71
• WHY IS THE LORD RIGHTEOUS?

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READ NEHEMIAH 99-11

• 9 You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt,
  and heard their cry by the Red Sea.
• 10 You showed signs and wonders against Pharaoh,
  against all his servants, and against all the
  people of his land. For You knew that they acted
  proudly against them. So You made a name for
  Yourself, as it is this day.
• 11 You divided the sea before them, so that they
  went through the midst of the sea on the dry
  land and their persecutors You threw into the
  deep, as a stone into the mighty waters.

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 99-11

• 9 You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt,
  and heard their cry by the Red Sea.
• WHEN DID GOD SEE THEIR AFFLICTION?
• READ EXODUS 223-24
• 23 Now it happened in the process of time that
  the king of Egypt died. The children of Israel
  groaned because of the bondage, and they cried
  out and their cry came up to God because of the
  bondage.
• 24 God heard their groaning, and God remembered
  His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with
  Jacob. (NKJ)

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 99-11

• 9 You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt,
  and heard their cry by the Red Sea.
• WHEN DID GOD HEAR THEIR CRY?
• READ EXODUS 1410
• 10 When Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel
  lifted their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians
  marched after them. So they were very afraid, and
  the children of Israel cried out to the LORD.
  (NKJ)

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 99-11

• 10 You showed signs and wonders against Pharaoh,
  against all his servants, and against all the
  people of his land. For You knew that they acted
  proudly against them. So You made a name for
  Yourself, as it is this day.
• HOW DID GOD SHOW HIS SIGNS AND WONDERS?
• READ ACTS 736
• 36 He brought them out, after he had shown
  wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in
  the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty
  years. (NKJ)

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 99-11

• 11 You divided the sea before them, so that they
  went through the midst of the sea on the dry
  land and their persecutors You threw into the
  deep, as a stone into the mighty waters.
• WHEN DID GOD DO THIS?
• READ EXODUS 1428-29
• 28 The waters returned and covered the chariots,
  the horsemen, and all the army of Pharaoh that
  came into the sea after them. Not so much as one
  of them remained.
• 29 But the children of Israel had walked on dry
  land in the midst of the sea, and the waters were
  a wall to them on their right hand and on their
  left. (NKJ)

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READ NEHEMIAH 913-14

• 12 Moreover You led them by day with a cloudy
  pillar, and by night with a pillar of fire, to
  give them light on the road which they should
  travel.
• 13 You came down also on Mount Sinai, and spoke
  with them from heaven, and gave them just
  ordinances and true laws, good statutes and
  commandments.
• 14 You made known to them Your holy Sabbath, and
  commanded them precepts, statutes and laws, by
  the hand of Moses Your servant.

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 913-14

• 12 Moreover You led them by day with a cloudy
  pillar, and by night with a pillar of fire, to
  give them light on the road which they should
  travel.
• WHAT WAS THIS CLOUDY PILLAR?
• READ EXODUS 1321-22
• 21 The LORD went before them by day in a pillar
  of cloud to lead the way, and by night in a
  pillar of fire to give them light, so as to go by
  day and night.
• 22 He did not take away the pillar of cloud by
  day or the pillar of fire by night from before
  the people. (NKJ)

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 913-14

• 13 You came down also on Mount Sinai, and spoke
  with them from heaven, and gave them just
  ordinances and true laws, good statutes and
  commandments.
• 14 You made known to them Your holy Sabbath, and
  commanded them precepts, statutes and laws, by
  the hand of Moses Your servant.
• WHAT HAPPENED AT MOUNT SINAI?
• WHO WAS THE LAW GIVEN TO?
• READ EXODUS 3215-16

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 913-14

• WHAT HAPPENED AT MOUNT SINAI?
• READ EXODUS 3215-16
• 15 Moses turned and went down from the mountain,
  and the two tablets of the Testimony were in his
  hand. The tablets were written on both sides on
  the one side and on the other they were written.
• 16 The tablets were the work of God, and the
  writing was the writing of God engraved on the
  tablets.

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 913-14

• WHO WAS THE LAW GIVEN TO?
• READ DEUTERONOMY 51-4
• 1 Moses called all Israel, and said to them
  Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which
  I speak in your hearing today, that you may learn
  them and be careful to observe them.
• 2 The LORD our God made a covenant with us in
  Horeb.
• 3 The LORD did not make this covenant with our
  fathers, but with us, those who are here today,
  all of us who are alive.
• 4 The LORD talked with you face to face on the
  mountain from the midst of the fire.

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READ NEHEMIAH 915-17

• 15 You gave them bread from heaven for their
  hunger, and brought them water out of the rock
  for their thirst, and told them to go in to
  possess the land which You had sworn to give
  them.
• 16 But they and our fathers acted proudly,
  hardened their necks, and did not heed Your
  commandments.
• 17 They refused to obey, and they were not
  mindful of Your wonders that You did among them.
  But they hardened their necks, and in their
  rebellion they appointed a leader to return to
  their bondage. But You are God, ready to pardon,
  gracious and merciful, slow to anger, abundant in
  kindness, and did not forsake them.

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 915-17

• 15 You gave them bread from heaven for their
  hunger, and brought them water out of the rock
  for their thirst, and told them to go in to
  possess the land which You had sworn to give
  them.
• WHEN DID GOD GIVE THEM BREAD FROM HEAVEN?
• WHEN DID GOD GIVE THEM WATER FROM A ROCK?
• WHEN DID THEY ENTER THE PROMISED LAND?

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 915-17

• WHEN DID GOD GIVE THEM BREAD FROM HEAVEN?
• EXODUS 164
• 4 The LORD said to Moses, Behold, I will rain
  bread from heaven for you. The people shall go
  out and gather a certain quota every day, that I
  may test them, whether they will walk in My law
  or not.
• DEUTERONOMY 83
• 3 He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed
  you with manna which you did not know nor did
  your fathers know, that He might make you know
  that man shall not live by bread alone but man
  lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth
  of the LORD.

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 915-17

• WHEN DID GOD GIVE THEM WATER FROM A ROCK?
• READ EXODUS 173-6
• 3 The people thirsted there for water and they
  complained against Moses, saying, Why is it you
  have brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and
  our children and our livestock with thirst?
• 4 Moses cried out to the LORD, saying, What shall
  I do with this people? They are almost ready to
  stone me!
• 5 The LORD said to Moses, Go before the people
  and take with you some of the elders of Israel.
  Also take in your hand your rod with which you
  struck the river.
• 6 Behold, I will stand before you there on the
  rock in Horeb. You shall strike the rock, and
  water will come out of it, that the people may
  drink. Moses did so in the sight of the elders of
  Israel.

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 915-17

• WHEN DID THEY ENTER THE PROMISED LAND?
• READ DEUTERONOMY 18
• 8 See, I have set the land before you go in and
  possess the land which the LORD swore to your
  fathers-- to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob-- to give
  to them and their descendants after them. (NKJ)
• DEUTERONOMY 273
• 3 You shall write on them all the words of this
  law, when you have crossed over, that you may
  enter the land which the LORD your God is giving
  you, a land flowing with milk and honey, just as
  the LORD God of your fathers promised you. (NKJ)

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 915-17

• 16 But they and our fathers acted proudly,
  hardened their necks, and did not heed Your
  commandments.
• 17 They refused to obey, and they were not
  mindful of Your wonders that You did among them.
  But they hardened their necks, and in their
  rebellion they appointed a leader to return to
  their bondage. But You are God, ready to pardon,
  gracious and merciful, slow to anger, abundant in
  kindness, and did not forsake them.
• WHAT DID THEY DO?
• WHAT WAS THE LORD READY TO DO?

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 915-17

• WHAT DID THEY DO?
• READ EXODUS 329
• 9 The LORD said to Moses, I have seen this
  people, and indeed it is a stiff-necked
  people! (NKJ)
• READ 2 KINGS 1713-14
• 13 The LORD testified against Israel and against
  Judah, by all of His prophets, every seer,
  saying, Turn from your evil ways, and keep My
  commandments and My statutes, according to all
  the law which I commanded your fathers, and
  which I sent to you by My servants the prophets.
• 14 Nevertheless they would not hear, but
  stiffened their necks, like the necks of their
  fathers, who did not believe in the LORD their
  God. (NKJ)

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 915-17

• WHAT WAS THE LORD READY TO DO?
• READ EXODUS 346-7
• 6 The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, The
  LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious,
  longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and
  truth,
• 7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity
  and transgression and sin, by no means clearing
  the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers
  upon the children and the children's children to
  the third and the fourth generation. (NKJ)

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 915-17

• WHAT WAS THE LORD READY TO DO?
• READ NUMBERS 1418
• 18 The LORD is longsuffering and abundant in
  mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression But
  He by no means clears the guilty, visiting the
  iniquity of the fathers on the children to the
  third and fourth generation. (NKJ)
• DEUTERONOMY 431
• 31 The LORD your God is a merciful God. He will
  not forsake you nor destroy you, nor forget the
  covenant of your fathers which He swore to them.

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READ NEHEMIAH 918-20

• 18 Even when they made a molded calf for
  themselves, and said, This is your god that
  brought you up out of Egypt, and worked great
  provocations,
• 19 Yet in Your manifold mercies you did not
  forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of the
  cloud did not depart from them by day, to lead
  them on the road nor the pillar of fire by
  night, to show them light, and the way they
  should go.
• 20 You also gave Your good Spirit to instruct
  them, and did not withhold Your manna from their
  mouth, and gave them water for their thirst.

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 918-20

• 18 Even when they made a molded calf for
  themselves, and said, This is your god that
  brought you up out of Egypt, and worked great
  provocations,
• WHEN DID THEY MAKE THE GOLDEN CALF?
• READ EXODUS 324
• 4 Aaron received the gold from their hand, and he
  fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made a
  molded calf. Then they said, This is your god, O
  Israel, that brought you out of the land of
  Egypt!
• (NKJ)

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 918-20

• 19 Yet in Your manifold mercies you did not
  forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of the
  cloud did not depart from them by day, to lead
  them on the road nor the pillar of fire by
  night, to show them light, and the way they
  should go.
• HOW DID GOD MANIFEST HIS MERCY?
• DID THEY KNOW GOD HAD NOT FORSAKEN THEM?

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 918-20

• 20 You also gave Your good Spirit to instruct
  them, and did not withhold Your manna from their
  mouth, and gave them water for their thirst.
• WHO WAS THE GOOD SPIRIT THAT GOD GAVE THEM?
• READ NEHEMIAH 2718-19
• 18 The LORD said to Moses Take Joshua the son of
  Nun with you, a man in whom is the Spirit, and
  lay your hand on him
• WHY DID GOD GIVE THEM THIS GOOD SPIRIT?

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READ NEHEMIAH 921-23

• 21 Forty years You sustained them in the
  wilderness, they lacked nothing their clothes
  did not wear out and their feet did not swell.
• 22 Moreover You gave them kingdoms and nations,
  and divided them into districts. So they took
  possession of the land of Sihon, the land of the
  king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of
  Bashan.
• 23 You also multiplied their children as the
  stars of heaven, and brought them into the land
  which You had told their fathers to go in and
  possess.

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 921-23

• 21 Forty years You sustained them in the
  wilderness, they lacked nothing their clothes
  did not wear out and their feet did not swell.
• HOW LONG DID THE WANDER IN THE WILDERNESS?
• HOW DID GOD CONTINUE TO SUSTAIN THEM?
• READ DEUTERONOMY 84
• 4 Your garments did not wear out on you, nor did
  your foot swell these forty years. (NKJ)

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 921-23

• 22 Moreover You gave them kingdoms and nations,
  and divided them into districts. They took
  possession of the land of Sihon, the land of the
  king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of
  Bashan.
• 23 You also multiplied their children as the
  stars of heaven, and brought them into the land
  which You had told their fathers to go in and
  possess.
• WHAT LANDS DID GOD GIVE THEM?
• READ NUMBERS 2121
• WHAT DID GOD PROMISE ABRAM?
• READ GENESIS 121-3

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 921-23

• WHAT DID GOD PROMISE ABRAM?
• READ GENESIS 121-3
• 1 The LORD had said to Abram Get out of your
  country, from your family and from your father's
  house, to a land that I will show you.
• 2 I will make you a great nation I will bless
  you and make your name great and you shall be a
  blessing.
• 3 I will bless those who bless you, and I will
  curse him who curses you and in you all the
  families of the earth shall be blessed. (NKJ)
• ALSO GENESIS 1316 155 2217
• DID THE LORD KEEP HIS PROMISE THE ABRAM?

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READ NEHEMIAH 924-25

• 24 The people went in and possessed the land you
  subdued before them the inhabitants of the land,
  the Canaanites, and gave them into their hands,
  with their kings and the people of the land, that
  they might do with them as they wished.
• 25 They took strong cities and a rich land, and
  possessed houses full of all goods, cisterns
  already dug, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit
  trees in abundance. They ate and were filled and
  grew fat, and delighted themselves in Your great
  goodness.

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 924-25

• 24 The people went in and possessed the land YOU
  subdued before them the inhabitants of the land,
  the Canaanites, and gave them into their hands,
  with their kings and the people of the land, that
  they might do with them as they wished.
• WHAT LAND DID THE POSSESS?
• WHEN DID THEY POSSESS THIS LAND?
• WHO SUBDUED THE INHABITANTS OF THE LAND?
• WHY DID THE LORD DO THIS?

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 924-25

• 25 They took strong cities and a rich land, and
  possessed houses full of all goods, cisterns
  already dug, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit
  trees in abundance. They ate and were filled and
  grew fat, and delighted themselves in Your great
  goodness.
• WHAT DID THEY TAKE POSSESSION OF?
• WHO GAVE THESE THING TO THEM?
• WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM?

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 924-25

• WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM?
• READ JEREMIAH 528
• 28 They have grown fat, they are sleek. Yes, they
  surpass the deeds of the wicked. They do not
  plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless. Yet
  they prosper and the right of the needy they do
  not defend. (NKJ)
• WHAT HAD THEY FORGOTTEN?

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READ NEHEMIAH 926-27

• 26 Nevertheless they were disobedient and
  rebelled against You, cast Your law behind their
  backs and killed Your prophets, who testified
  against them to turn them to Yourself and they
  worked great provocations.
• 27 Therefore You delivered them into the hand of
  their enemies, who oppressed them and in the
  time of their trouble, when they cried to You,
  you heard from heaven and according to Your
  abundant mercies you gave them deliverers who
  saved them from the hand of their enemies.

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 926-27

• 26 Nevertheless they were disobedient and
  rebelled against You, cast Your law behind their
  backs and killed Your prophets, who testified
  against them to turn them to Yourself and they
  worked great provocations.
• HOW WERE THEY DISOBEDIENT?
• WHAT DID THEY DO?
• WHAT PROPHETS DID THEY KILL?

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 926-27

• WHO KILLED THE PROPHETS?
• READ 1 KINGS 184
• 4 While Jezebel massacred the prophets of the
  LORD, Obadiah had taken one hundred prophets and
  hidden them, fifty to a cave, and had fed them
  with bread and water.
• READ 1 KINGS 1813
• 13 Was it not reported to my lord what I did when
  Jezebel killed the prophets of the LORD, how I
  hid one hundred men of the LORD'S prophets, fifty
  to a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 926-27

• WHO KILLED THE PROPHETS?
• READ 1 KINGS 1910
• 10 Elijah said, I have been very zealous for the
  LORD God of hosts. The children of Israel have
  forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars,
  and killed Your Prophets with the sword. I alone
  am left and they seek to take my life.
• READ 1 KINGS 1914
• 14 Elijah said, I have been very zealous for the
  LORD God of hosts because the children of Israel
  have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your
  altars, and killed Your Prophets with the sword.
  I alone am left and they seek to take my life.

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 926-27

• WHO KILLED THE PROPHETS?
• READ 2 CHRONICLES 2420-21
• 20 The Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son
  of Jehoiada the priest, who stood above the
  people, and said to them, Thus says God Why do
  you transgress the commandments of the LORD, so
  that you cannot prosper? Because you have
  forsaken the LORD, He also has forsaken you.
• 21 They conspired against him, and at the
  commandment of the king they stoned him with
  stones in the court of the house of the LORD.

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 926-27

• WHO KILLED URIJAH?
• JEREMIAH 2620-24
• 20 There was also a man who prophesied in the
  name of the LORD, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of
  Kirjath Jearim, who prophesied against this city
  and against this land according to all the words
  of Jeremiah.
• 21 When Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty
  men and all the princes, heard his words, the
  king sought to put him to death but when Urijah
  heard it, he was afraid and fled, and went to
  Egypt.
• 22 Then Jehoiakim the king sent men to Egypt
  Elnathan the son of Achbor, and other men who
  went with him to Egypt.
• 23 They brought Urijah from Egypt and brought him
  to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the
  sword and cast his dead body into the graves of
  the common people.
• 24 Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of
  Shaphan was with Jeremiah, so that they should
  not give him into the hand of the people to put
  him to death. (NKJ)

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 926-27

• WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PROPHETS?
• READ HEBREWS 1132
• 32 What more shall I say? For the time would fail
  me to tell of Gideon and Barak and Samson and
  Jephthah, also of David and Samuel and the
  prophets
• READ HEBREWS 1136-38
• 36 Still others had trial of mockings and
  scourgings, yes, and of chains and imprisonment.
• 37 They were stoned, they were sawn in two, were
  tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered
  about in sheepskins and goatskins, being
  destitute, afflicted, tormented--
• 38 Of whom the world was not worthy. They
  wandered in deserts and mountains, in dens and
  caves of the earth.

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 926-27

• 27 Therefore You delivered them into the hand of
  their enemies, who oppressed them and in the
  time of their trouble, when they cried to You,
  you heard from heaven and according to Your
  abundant mercies you gave them deliverers who
  saved them from the hand of their enemies.
• WHAT DID THE LORD DO TO THEM?
• WHAT DID THE LORD DO WHEN THEY CRIED OUT?

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READ NEHEMIAH 928-29

• 28 After they had rest, they again did evil
  before You. Therefore You left them in the hand
  of their enemies, so that they had dominion over
  them yet when they returned and cried out to
  You, you heard from heaven and many times You
  delivered them according to Your mercies,
• 29 And testified against them, that You might
  bring them back to Your law. Yet they acted
  proudly, and did not heed Your commandments, but
  sinned against Your judgments, Which if a man
  does, he shall live by them. They shrugged their
  shoulders, Stiffened their necks, and would not
  hear.

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 928-29

• 28 After they had rest, they again did evil
  before You. Therefore You left them in the hand
  of their enemies, so that they had dominion over
  them. Yet when they returned and cried out to
  You, you heard from heaven and many times You
  delivered them according to Your mercies,
• WHAT DID THEY DO AFTER THEY HAD REST?
• HOW DID THEY RETURN?
• WHY DID GOD HEAR THEM?
• HOW OFTEN DID GOD DELIVER THEM?

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 928-29

• 29 And testified against them, that You might
  bring them back to Your law. Yet they acted
  proudly, and did not heed Your commandments, but
  sinned against Your judgments, Which if a man
  does, he shall live by them. They shrugged their
  shoulders, Stiffened their necks, and would not
  hear.
• WHY DID GOD TESTIFY AGAINST THEM?
• HOW DID THEY RESPOND?

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 928-29

• HOW DID THEY RESPOND?
• READ ZECHARIAH 711-12
• 11 They refused to heed, shrugged their
  shoulders, and stopped their ears so that they
  could not hear.
• 12 Yes, they made their hearts like flint,
  refusing to hear the law and the words which the
  LORD of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the
  former prophets. Thus great wrath came from the
  LORD of hosts. (NKJ)
• HOW DID THE ZECHARIAH DESCRIBE THESE PEOPLE?
• HOW DID THE LORD TESTIFY TO THEM?
• WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM?

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READ HOSEA 416-19

• 16 Israel is stubborn like a stubborn calf now
  the LORD will let them forage like a lamb in open
  country.
• WHY DESCRIBE ISRAEL LIKE A STUBBORN CALF?
• WHAT HAD THE LORD DONE TO ISRAEL?
• HOW DOES A LAMB FORAGE IN OPEN COUNTRY?

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READ NEHEMIAH 930-31

• 30 For many years You had patience with them, and
  testified against them by Your Spirit in Your
  prophets. Yet they would not listen therefore
  You gave them into the hand of the peoples of the
  lands.
• 31 Nevertheless in Your great mercy you did not
  utterly consume them nor forsake them for You
  are God, gracious and merciful.

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 930-31

• 30 For many years You had patience with them, and
  testified against them by Your Spirit in Your
  prophets. Yet they would not listen therefore
  You gave them into the hand of the peoples of the
  lands.
• 31 Nevertheless in Your great mercy you did not
  utterly consume them nor forsake them for You
  are God, gracious and merciful.
• HOW PATIENT IS THE LORD?
• HOW DID THE LORD TESTIFY TO THEM?
• HOW DID THEY RESPOND?
• WHY DIDNT THE LORD CONSUME THEM?
• OR FORSAKE THEM?

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READ NEHEMIAH 932-34

• 32 Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty,
  and awesome God, who keeps covenant and mercy do
  not let all the trouble seem small before You
  that has come upon us, our kings and our princes,
  our priests and our prophets, our fathers and on
  all Your people, from the days of the kings of
  Assyria until this day.
• 33 However You are just in all that has befallen
  us for You have dealt faithfully, but we have
  done wickedly.
• 34 Neither our kings nor our princes, our priests
  nor our fathers, have kept Your law, nor heeded
  Your commandments and Your testimonies, with
  which You testified against them.

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 932-34

• 32 Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty,
  and awesome God, who keeps covenant and mercy do
  not let all the trouble seem small before You
  that has come upon us, our kings and our princes,
  our priests and our prophets, our fathers and on
  all Your people, from the days of the kings of
  Assyria until this day.
• HOW DOES HE DESCRIBE GOD?
• WHAT DOES HE WANT GOD TO DO?
• HOW LONG HAS THIS TROUBLE COME UPON THEM?

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 932-34

• 33 However You are just in all that has befallen
  us for You have dealt faithfully, but we have
  done wickedly.
• 34 Neither our kings nor our princes, our priests
  nor our fathers, have kept Your law, nor heeded
  Your commandments and Your testimonies, with
  which You testified against them.
• WHY DOES HE SAY GOD IS JUST?
• WHO IS GUILTY?
• WHAT ARE THEY GUILTY OF?
• WHAT TESTIFIED AGAINST THEM?

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READ NEHEMIAH 935-37

• 35 For they have not served You in their kingdom,
  or in the many good things that You gave them, or
  in the large and rich land which You set before
  them nor did they turn from their wicked works.
• 36 Here we are, servants today! And the land that
  You gave to our fathers, to eat its fruit and its
  bounty, here we are, servants in it!
• 37 And it yields much increase to the kings you
  have set over us, because of our sins also they
  have dominion over our bodies and our cattle at
  their pleasure and we are in great distress.

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 935-37

• 35 For they have not served You in their kingdom,
  or in the many good things that You gave them, or
  in the large and rich land which You set before
  them nor did they turn from their wicked works.
• HOW HAD THEY NOT SERVED THE LORD?
• WHAT DID THEY NOT TURN FROM?

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 935-37

• 36 Here we are, servants today! And the land that
  You gave to our fathers, to eat its fruit and its
  bounty, here we are, servants in it!
• 37 And it yields much increase to the kings you
  have set over us, because of our sins also they
  have dominion over our bodies and our cattle at
  their pleasure and we are in great distress.
• WHY ARE THEY SERVANTS?
• WHO DO THEY SERVE?
• WHAT IS THEIR GREAT DISTRESS?

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READ NEHEMIAH 938

• 38 Because of all this, we make a sure covenant,
  and write it our leaders, our Levites, and our
  priests seal it. (NKJ)

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 938

• 38 Because of all this, we make a sure covenant,
  and write it our leaders, our Levites, and our
  priests seal it. (NKJ)
• WHAT DID THEY PURPOSE TO DO?
• WHAT IS A COVENANT?
• WHY PUT IT IN WRITING?
• WHY NOT AN OATH?

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 938

• HAVE THEY NOT TESTIFIED UNDER OATH BEFORE?
• READ EXODUS 243
• 3 Moses came and told the people all the words of
  the LORD and all the judgments. And all the
  people answered with one voice and said, "All the
  words which the LORD has said we will do."
• HAD THEY MADE A COVENANT BEFORE?
• READ JOSHUA 2424-25
• 24 The people said to Joshua, The LORD our God we
  will serve, and His voice we will obey!
• 25 Joshua made a covenant with the people that
  day, and made for them a statute an ordinance
  in Shechem.

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QUESTIONS NEHEMIAH 938

• HAD THEY MADE A COVENANT BEFORE?
• READ JEREMIAH 505
• 5 They shall ask the way to Zion, with their
  faces toward it, saying, Come and let us join
  ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant
  that will not be forgotten.
• WHAT IS A PERPETUAL COVENANT?
• READ NEHEMIAH 938
• 38 Because of all this, we make a sure covenant,
  and write it our leaders, our Levites, and our
  priests seal it.
• WHY WOULD THIS COVENANT BE DIFFERENT?
• WHO WOULD BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE?

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