9 questions across 4 chapters
“Let us help you build because, like you, we seek your God and have been sacrificing to him since the time of Esarhaddon king of Assyria, who brought us here?”
“You have no part with us in building a temple to our God. We alone will build it for the LORD, the God of Israel?”
“Why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?”
“Who hath commanded you to build this house, and to make up this wall?”
“What are the names of the men that make this building?”
“Who commanded you to build this house, and to make up these walls?”
“Now, O our God, what shall we say after this?”
“Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations?”
“Now let us make a covenant before our God to send away all these women and their children, in accordance with the counsel of my lord and of those who fear the commands of our God. Let it be done according to the Law?”