Discovery BoxNehemiah 1:3 
Context1:3 They said to me, “The remnant that remains from the exile there in the province are experiencing considerable 1 adversity and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem lies breached, and its gates have been burned down!” 2
Nehemiah 2:3
Context2:3 I replied to the king, “O king, live forever! Why would I not appear dejected when the city with the graves of my ancestors 3 lies desolate and its gates destroyed 4 by fire?”
Nehemiah 2:13
Context2:13 I proceeded through the Valley Gate by night, in the direction of the Well of the Dragons 5 and the Dung Gate, 6 inspecting 7 the walls of Jerusalem that had been breached and its gates that had been destroyed by fire.
Nehemiah 2:17
Context2:17 Then I said to them, “You see the problem that we have: Jerusalem is desolate and its gates are burned. Come on! Let’s rebuild the wall of Jerusalem so that this reproach will not continue.”
Nehemiah 6:1
Context6:1 When Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall and no breach remained in it (even though up to that time I had not positioned doors in the gates),
1 tn Heb “great.”
2 tn Heb “have been burned with fire” (so also in Neh 2:17). The expression “burned with fire” is redundant in contemporary English; the translation uses “burned down” for stylistic reasons.
3 tn Heb “fathers” (also in v. 5).
4 tn Heb “devoured” or “eaten” (so also in Neh 2:13).
5 tn Or “Well of the Serpents”; or “Well of the Jackals” (cf. ASV, NIV, NLT).
6 tn Or “Rubbish Gate” (so TEV); NASB “Refuse Gate”; NCV “Trash Gate”; CEV “Garbage Gate.”
7 tc For the MT reading שֹׂבֵר (sover, “inspecting”) the LXX erroneously has שֹׁבֵר (shover, “breaking”). However, further destruction of Jerusalem’s walls was obviously not a part of Nehemiah’s purpose.
