9A Study Questions for Ezra-Nehemiah
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  1. Ezra
    1. What did God charge Cyrus, king of Persia, to do? What objects did he return to Sheshbazzar? 1-7
    2. Approximately how many exiles returned to the land of Judah? 64-67

    3. How did Zerubbabel and the people worship God after they returned from Babylon? 1-6, 11-13
    4. Who asked to help Zerubbabel and the Jews in the rebuilding of the Temple? Why did Zerubbabel refuse their help? How did the people of the land react to his refusal? 1-6, 12-13

    5. Who were the two prophets that prophesied and helped to rebuild the Temple? 1-2

    6. What was the decree promulgated by Darius, king of Persia and how did he help the Jews? 6-12 What feast did the Jews keep after the Temple was finished? 19-22

    7. Who was Ezra? 1, 6 What did he set his heart to study? 10 Did the Levite priests have to pay taxes to Artaxerxes’ government? 24

    8. Before setting out for Jerusalem, what did Ezra do? Why was Ezra ashamed to ask the king for an armed escort of soldiers to protect them during their journey home? 21-23

    9. What terrible sin had the returning exiles committed? How did Ezra react when he learned of their sin? 1-8, 13-15

    10. What oath did Ezra ask the people to take? 1-5. Why were all the people trembling on the day that Ezra read the Law to them? 9-17

    Nehemiah
    1. What had happened to the walls of Jerusalem? 1-4. What words of God did Nehemiah remember when he heard about how Jerusalem was in such disrepair? 5-9. Who was Nehemiah? 10
    2. What did Nehemiah request of king Artaxerxes? 1-5. Who was displeased by the news that Nehemiah had been sent to build the walls of Jerusalem? 9-10

    4. How did Sanballat react to the news about the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem? 1-2. How were Nehemiah and his workmen forced to work because of the threat of Sanballat? 15-18, 23

    5. To what office was Nehemiah appointed by the Persian king? How was he different from previous governors? 14-16

    8. How did Ezra read the Law of Moses to the people? 1-3, 5-8

    9. How did the people react to the readingof the Law? 1-3. How did Ezra view all the tragedies that had happened to his people since the time of the kings of Assyria? 32-38

    10. What ‘curse’ did Nehemiah and people place themselves under? 9: 38, 10: 28-32

    13. What sin had Eliashib the priest committed? How did Nehemiah correct it? 1-9. How were the people violating the Sabbath? 15-22 What was happening to the children of the Jews because of their intermarriage with the women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab? 23-27, 30







Mrs. Moroles
Oratory Athenaeum
Pharr, TX