Nehemiah picks up where Ezra leaves off: rebuilding Jerusalem’s walls, dealing with local opposition, and enforcing some strict new rules about marriage and community membership. It’s part construction project, part political memoir, and part cautionary tale depending on how you read it. We made it through all 13 chapters.
You’ll also see 3 episodes marked Dig Deeper below. The show’s format is an unstudied first read, reactions and all, so those episodes are where the hosts go back into a book or chapters they already covered to chase down their own questions and pick up what they missed the first time through. They’re not listener Q&A, just the hosts grading their own homework.
16 episodes (13 read-through + 3 Dig Deeper) • Chapters 1–13 (complete) • Recorded 2023
Every Episode, In Order
- Nehemiah Chapter 1
- Nehemiah Chapter 2
- Nehemiah Chapter 3
- [Dig Deeper] Nehemiah Chapters 1–3
- Nehemiah Chapter 4
- Nehemiah Chapter 5
- Nehemiah Chapter 6
- Nehemiah Chapter 7
- Nehemiah Chapter 8
- [Dig Deeper] Nehemiah Chapters 4–8
- Nehemiah Chapter 9
- Nehemiah Chapter 10
- Nehemiah Chapter 11
- Nehemiah Chapter 12
- Nehemiah Chapter 13
- [Dig Deeper] Nehemiah Chapters 9–14
Contradictions We Found in Nehemiah
Here are some of the contradictions we dug into in Nehemiah (out of 21 we cataloged):
- Did any Moabite enter the congregation of the Lord?
- How many children did Arah have?
- How many children did Azgad have?
- How many children did Bebai have?
- How many children did Bezai have?
- How many children did Delaiah have?
- How many children did Pahathmoab have?
- How many children did the porters have?
- How many singing men and women returned from Babylon?
- Was city of Ai rebuilt?
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