All of us at times experience a putdown, a jab, an insult and a verbal assualt. In our passage today, Nehemiah will face five verbal assualts that come in the form of questions. Each of these questions is cloaked in ridicule. We get to learn how Nehemiah dealt with these so that we know who to respond in kind. In addition, we learn 17 different terms the Bible gives us about the real enemy of our soul.
