REBUILDING
JERUSALEM
JERUSALEM
This man led the effort to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem in just 52 days.
Who is Nehemiah?
In Ezekiel's famous vision, these dry items came to life and became a vast army.
What are bones?
This Persian King issued the first decree allowing the Jews to return and rebuild the temple.
Who is Cyrus?
This prophet is the very last book of the Old Testament.
Who is Malachi?
Daniel was thrown into a den filled with these animals for praying to God.
What are lions?
This priest and scribe led the second wave of exiles and taught the Law to the people.
Who is Ezra?
In Daniel 2, the King saw a giant statue made of various metals; Daniel said, the head was made of this.
What is gold?
Esther became queen after this previous queen was deposed for refusing to appear before the King.
Who is Vashti?
This prophet challenged the people to stop building their own "paneled houses" and finish the Temple.
Who is Haggai?
Their birth names, Hananiah, Asariah, and Mishael, these three Hebrew boys, were thrown into a fiery furnance for refusing to bow to an idol.
Who are Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego?
This descendant of David led the first group back to Jerusalem to lay the Temple foundation. He also served as governor of Judah.
Who is Zerubbabel?
During a feast, King Belshazzar saw this body part writing a message of judgment on a wall.
What is a hand?
This villian in the book of Esther plotted to destroy all the Jews in the Persian Empire.
Who is Haman?
This prophet had a vision of a "flying scroll" and another of a woman in a basket.
Who is Zechariah?
Nehemiah served in this high-ranking, trusted position for King Artaxerxes before leaving for Jerusalem.
What is a cupbearer?
While rebuilding the wall, Nehemiah's builders worked with a tool in one hand and this in the other.
What is a weapon or sword?
Zechariah predicted the Messiah would enter Jerusalem riding on this specific animal.
What is a donkey (or colt)?
Mordecai told Esther she may have attained her royal position for this specific reason.
What is "for such a time as this"?
Malachi famously accused the people of "robbing God" by withholding these items.
What are tithes and offerings?
These two specific enemies of Nehemiah constantly mocked and threatened the wall-building project.
Who are Sanballat and Tobiah?
After the Temple foundation was laid, the older generation did this because the new Temple was so small.
What is "wept"?
In Daniel 8, the prophet sees a shaggy goat from the west with one large horn that shatters a ram; an angel explains that the goat represents this world empire and its first king.
What is Greece (and Alexander the Great)?
This Jewish feast was established to celebrate the victory of the Jews over Haman's plot.
What is Purim?
Ezekiel was told to perform this symbolic act: lie on his left side for this many days to represent Israel's sin.
What is 390 days?
Daniel was given this Babylonian name by the chief official of King Nebuchadnezzar.
What is Belteshazzar?
Ezra was deeply grieved and pulled out his hair when he discovered the people had committed this sin.
What is intermarrying with pagan nations?
In Zechariah's fifth night vision, he sees a golden lampstand fed by two olive trees, which the angel identifies as these two specific leaders of the return to Jerusalem.
Who are Zerubbabel (the governor) and Joshua(the high priest)?
This is the name of the Persian capital city where the stories of both Nehemiah and Esther take place.
What is Susa?
Malachi ends his book by promising that God will send this specific prophet before the "day of the LORD."
Who is Elijah?
In Daniel 1, Daniel and his three friends risked the King's wrath by refusing the royal food and wine, requesting to eat only this for ten days instead.
What is vegetables (pulse) and water?
These two specific prophets are credited in Ezra 5:1 with encouraging the people to resume the Temple work.
Who are Haggai and Zechariah?
In Ezekiel 10, the prophet sees the "Glory of the LORD" perform this heartbreaking action, moving from the Holy of Holies to the threshold, then to the east gate, and finally away from the city.
What is departing from the Temple?
This is the only book in the Bible that does not explicitly mention the word "God."
What is Esther?
Zechariah's "night visions" consisted of this many distinct visions in a single night.
What is eight?
When Nehemiah's life was threatened by a trap to lure him into the Temple sanctuary for safety, he famously responded with this courageous question.
What is " should such a man as I flee?"
(Nehemiah 6:11)