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Building With a Weapon in Hand Quiz

Test how well you remember the builders who worked with a weapon in hand, from Nehemiah 4. Each question is answered directly from the passage, and the King James verse is shown with every answer. Complete the quiz to unlock a free 7-day prayer guide!

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  1. Who asked, What do these feeble Jews?
    • Artaxerxes
    • Tobiah
    • Sanballat
    • Nehemiah
  2. According to Tobiah, what animal could break down the wall?
    • A fox
    • A donkey
    • A goat
    • A lion
  3. How far had the wall been joined together in Nehemiah 4:6?
    • Only the gates were done
    • It was completely finished
    • Unto the half thereof
    • Not a stone had been laid
  4. Why did the work go forward?
    • The priests paid the builders
    • The enemies left the land
    • The king sent more workers
    • The people had a mind to work
  5. What did Nehemiah and the people do when the enemies conspired?
    • Stopped building and hid
    • Sent gifts to Sanballat
    • Made their prayer to God and set a watch day and night
    • Moved out of Jerusalem
  6. How many times did the Jews living near the enemies warn them?
    • Once
    • Ten times
    • Seven times
    • Three times
  7. What did Nehemiah tell the people to remember?
    • The size of their army
    • The king's letters
    • The Lord, which is great and terrible
    • The day they left Babylon
  8. How did the builders and burden-bearers work?
    • Working with one hand and holding a weapon with the other
    • Taking turns sleeping on the wall
    • Working only during the night
    • Working without any weapons at all
  9. What were the people to do when they heard the trumpet?
    • Gather to the place where it sounded
    • Climb down from the wall and hide
    • Stop work for the day
    • Run home to their families
  10. How long did they work each day?
    • From noon until dark
    • From the rising of the morning till the stars appeared
    • Only in the cool of the evening
    • From dawn until midday

Building With a Weapon in Hand Quiz Answers & Bible References

Every answer below, with the King James Bible verse it comes from — so you can look up each one for yourself.

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  1. Who asked, What do these feeble Jews?

    Sanballat

    And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?

    nehemiah 4:2 (KJV)

  2. According to Tobiah, what animal could break down the wall?

    A fox

    Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.

    nehemiah 4:3 (KJV)

  3. How far had the wall been joined together in Nehemiah 4:6?

    Unto the half thereof

    So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.

    nehemiah 4:6 (KJV)

  4. Why did the work go forward?

    The people had a mind to work

    So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.

    nehemiah 4:6 (KJV)

  5. What did Nehemiah and the people do when the enemies conspired?

    Made their prayer to God and set a watch day and night

    Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.

    nehemiah 4:9 (KJV)

  6. How many times did the Jews living near the enemies warn them?

    Ten times

    And it came to pass, that when the Jews which dwelt by them came, they said unto us ten times, From all places whence ye shall return unto us they will be upon you.

    nehemiah 4:12 (KJV)

  7. What did Nehemiah tell the people to remember?

    The Lord, which is great and terrible

    And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them: remember the Lord, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.

    nehemiah 4:14 (KJV)

  8. How did the builders and burden-bearers work?

    Working with one hand and holding a weapon with the other

    They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon.

    nehemiah 4:17 (KJV)

  9. What were the people to do when they heard the trumpet?

    Gather to the place where it sounded

    In what place therefore ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither unto us: our God shall fight for us.

    nehemiah 4:20 (KJV)

  10. How long did they work each day?

    From the rising of the morning till the stars appeared

    So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.

    nehemiah 4:21 (KJV)