17 questions Nehemiah asked across 1 book
“Let your ear be attentive and your eyes open to hear the prayer your servant is praying before you day and night for your servants, the people of Israel?”
“Why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?”
“What my God had put in my heart to do for Jerusalem?”
“I had not yet told the Jews, the priests, the nobles, the officials or any others who would be doing the work?”
“You are charging your own people interest!?”
“And will ye even sell your brethren?”
“Ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?”
“Why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?”
“Should such a man as I flee?”
“Go and enjoy choice food and sweet drinks, and send some to those who have nothing prepared. This day is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength?”
“Why is the house of God forsaken?”
“What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day?”
“Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city?”
“Why lodge ye about the wall?”
“Did not Solomon king of Israel sin on account of such women?”
“Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things?”
“Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?”