Discovery BoxNehemiah 1:4 
Context1:4 When I heard these things I sat down abruptly, 1 crying and mourning for several days. I continued fasting and praying before the God of heaven.
Nehemiah 4:4
Context4:4 Hear, O our God, for we are despised! Return their reproach on their own head! Reduce them to plunder in a land of exile!
Nehemiah 4:15
Context4:15 It so happened that when our adversaries heard that we were aware of these matters, 2 God frustrated their intentions. Then all of us returned to the wall, each to his own work.
Nehemiah 5:9
Context5:9 Then I 3 said, “The thing that you are doing is wrong! 4 Should you not conduct yourselves 5 in the fear of our God in order to avoid the reproach of the Gentiles who are our enemies?
Nehemiah 6:12
Context6:12 I recognized the fact that God had not sent him, for he had spoken the prophecy against me as a hired agent of Tobiah and Sanballat. 6
Nehemiah 6:14
Context6:14 Remember, O my God, Tobiah and Sanballat in light of these actions of theirs – also Noadiah the prophetess and the other prophets who were trying to scare me!
Nehemiah 7:2
Context7:2 I then put in charge over Jerusalem 7 my brother Hanani and Hananiah 8 the chief of the citadel, for he was a faithful man and feared God more than many do.
Nehemiah 9:18
Context9:18 even when they made a cast image of a calf for themselves and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up from Egypt,’ or when they committed atrocious 9 blasphemies.
Nehemiah 9:31
Context9:31 However, due to your abundant mercy you did not do away with them altogether; you did not abandon them. For you are a merciful and compassionate God.
Nehemiah 10:32
Context10:32 We accept responsibility for fulfilling 10 the commands to give 11 one third of a shekel each year for the work of the temple 12 of our God,
Nehemiah 10:38
Context10:38 A priest of Aaron’s line 13 will be with the Levites when the Levites collect the tithes, and the Levites will bring up a tenth of the tithes to the temple of our God, to the storerooms of the treasury.
Nehemiah 11:11
Context11:11 Seraiah son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, supervisor in the temple of God,
Nehemiah 12:45
Context12:45 They performed the service of their God and the service of purification, along with the singers and gatekeepers, according to the commandment of David and 14 his son Solomon.
Nehemiah 13:1-2
Context13:1 On that day the book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing 15 of the people. They found 16 written in it that no Ammonite or Moabite may ever enter the assembly of God, 13:2 for they had not met the Israelites with food 17 and water, but instead had hired Balaam to curse them. (Our God, however, turned the curse into blessing.)
Nehemiah 13:4
Context13:4 But prior to this time, Eliashib the priest, a relative of Tobiah, had been appointed over the storerooms 18 of the temple of our God.
Nehemiah 13:7
Context13:7 and I returned to Jerusalem. Then I discovered the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah by supplying him with a storeroom in the courts of the temple of God.
Nehemiah 13:11
Context13:11 So I registered a complaint with the leaders, asking “Why is the temple of God neglected?” Then I gathered them and reassigned them to their positions. 19
Nehemiah 13:27
Context13:27 Should we then in your case hear that you do all this great evil, thereby being unfaithful to our God by marrying 20 foreign wives?”
Nehemiah 13:31
Context13:31 I also provided for 21 the wood offering at the appointed times and also for the first fruits.
Please remember me for good, O my God.
1 tn Heb “sat down.” Context suggests that this was a rather sudden action, resulting from the emotional shock of the unpleasant news, so “abruptly” has been supplied in the present translation.
2 tn Heb “it was known to us.”
3 tc The translation reads with the Qere and the ancient versions וָאוֹמַר (va’omar, “and I said”) rather than the MT Kethib, וַיֹּאמֶר (vayyo’mer, “and he said”).
4 tn Heb “not good.” The statement “The thing…is not good” is an example of tapeinosis, a figurative expression which emphasizes the intended point (“The thing…is wrong!”) by negating its opposite.
5 tn Heb “[should you not] walk.”
6 tn Heb “and Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.”
7 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
8 tn Some have suggested that “Hananiah” is another name for Hanani, Nehemiah’s brother, so that only one individual is mentioned here. However, the third person plural in v. 3 indicates two people are in view.
9 tn Heb “great.”
10 tn Heb “cause to stand on us.”
11 tc The MT reads “to give upon us.” However, the term עָלֵינוּ (’alenu, “upon us”) should probably be deleted, following a few medieval Hebrew
12 tn Heb “house” (also in vv. 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39).
13 tn Heb “And the priest the son of Aaron.”
14 tc With many medieval Hebrew
15 tn Heb “ears.”
16 tn Heb “it was found.” The Hebrew verb is passive.
17 tn Heb “bread.” The Hebrew term is generic here, however, referring to more than bread alone.
18 tc The translation reads the plural rather than the singular of the MT.
19 tn Heb “and I stood them on their standing.”
20 tn Heb “give a dwelling to.”
21 tn The words “I also provided for” are not included in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for the sake of clarity.
