Chapter Outline for Nehemiah

1. Nehemiah's Prayer for the Exiles
2. Artaxerxes Sends Nehemiah to Jerusalem to Inspect Jerusalem's Walls
3. Builders of the Walls Named
4. Work on Walls Is Ridiculed; Opposition Overcome
5. Nehemiah Abolishes Debt Mortgage and Bondage
6. Sanballat's Plot; Completion of the Wall
7. Census of Returned Exiles
8. Ezra Reads the Law Restores the Feast of Tabernacles
9. The Israelites Confess Their Sin Covenant Results
10. Signers and Obligations of the Covenant
11. New Residents of Jerusalem and Judah
12. Priests and Levites Who Returned; Dedication of the Wall
13. Foreigners Excluded; Tobiah Expelled; Tithes and Sabbath Restored