Discovery BoxNehemiah 1:6 
Context1:6 may your ear be attentive and your eyes be open to hear the prayer of your servant that I am praying to you today throughout both day and night on behalf of your servants the Israelites. I am confessing the sins of the Israelites that we have committed 1 against you – both I myself and my family 2 have sinned.
Nehemiah 9:29
Context9:29 And you solemnly admonished them in order to return them to your law, but they behaved presumptuously and did not obey your commandments. They sinned against your ordinances – those by which an individual, if he obeys them, 3 will live. They boldly turned from you; 4 they rebelled 5 and did not obey.
Nehemiah 13:26
Context13:26 Was it not because of things like these that King Solomon of Israel sinned? Among the many nations there was no king like him. He was loved by his God, and God made 6 him king over all Israel. But the foreign wives made even him sin!
1 tn Heb “have sinned.” For stylistic reasons – to avoid redundancy in English – this was translated as “committed.”
2 tn Heb “the house of my father.”
3 tn Heb “if a man keep.” See note on the word “obey” in Neh 1:5.
4 tn Heb “they gave a stubborn shoulder.”
5 tn Heb “they stiffened their neck.”
6 tn Heb “gave.”
