Answer: they wept
Ezra read, and several of the most gifted of the priests and scribes interpreted and explained the meaning of the Law to the people. It would have been difficult for one man to make his voice heard throughout a crowd of several thousand people -- quite possibly 12,000 or more. In the context it is clear that when the people heard and understood to what extent they had neglected, or gone astray from, the Law of the Lord, they wept in genuine sorrow and repentance for their sins.
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Answer: Ammonites and Moabites
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Answer: Sukkoth
Sukkoth (also spelled 'Sukkot') is the Hebrew name for the festival (religious holiday or holy day/s) of booths, or tabernacles. During the seven days of Sukkoth the people construct temporary shelters out of leafy branches, and live in them for the duration, to commemorate the time of wandering in the wilderness, when the Lord brought His people out of Egypt, and before He gave them the Promised Land of Canaan.
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Answer: good
Nehemiah 13:31 "And for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for the first fruits. Remember me, O my God, for good."
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Answer: They confessed their sins
Nehemiah, Ezra, the leaders, heads of families, and all the people, having rediscovered the written Law, began to apply it earnestly. They were painfully aware of having wandered into contravention of God's Law, but they had also discovered that the Law itself prescribed a path of repentance and sacrifice by which they could be reinstated into righteousness. The first step was confession, in which the whole community admitted its collective guilt before God.
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Answer: a covenant of renewed faithfulness
Here is the good (for Judaism) that came out of the loss of Jerusalem, and of the Temple of Solomon, and out of the Exile: the Israelites, that persistently unfaithful Biblical people, became the Jews, who here made a commitment to be faithful to God. They would not, as a people, break it again. Some Christians have argued that in rejecting Jesus, whom Christians believe to be the Messiah of promise, the Jews have once more placed themselves outside of God's covenant. However there can be little doubt that devout Jews continue to be sincerely faithful in their faith.
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Answer: one tenth
The prospect of making a living in a Jerusalem of which the city itself within the walls (apart from the Temple) had yet to be rebuilt, would not have been attractive. Some devout people volunteered to do so, and the people honoured them. The remainder of the tenth were chosen by lot (rather like being drafted into the military). It is very probable that the particular proportion of a tenth was decided upon because of the prevalence in the Law of that proportion as the amount which was due to God - the 'tithe': Nehemiah saw to it that a tithe of the people was given to God's service in the ongoing rebuilding of Jerusalem.
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Answer: as thanksgiving choirs
Along with the recovery of the Law, formal worship with its burnt offerings, its priests, sacrifices, readings, prayers and singing was being reinstated. The appointment of these choirs represent Nehemiah's focus upon the idea that it was God Himself who was responsible for the rebuilding of His Temple and the renewal of Jerusalem: it was important that His praises be sung, and that they should be sung in a way that honoured Him.
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Answer: Nehemiah threw Tobiah's stuff out
Plainly, Nehemiah lost his temper, and who would blame him? It appears that he, in a rage, himself physically picked up and threw Tobiah's property out of the room, and ordered it cleansed and returned to Temple service: to the service of JHWH. The Bible does not explain how Tobiah wormed his way into the favour of Eliashib the priest, but Nehemiah still knew who the enemy was!
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