Discovery BoxNehemiah 1:7 
Context1:7 We have behaved corruptly against you, not obeying the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments that you commanded your servant Moses.
Nehemiah 4:1
Context4:1 (3:33) 1 Now when Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall he became angry and was quite upset. He derided the Jews,
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 4:6
Context4:6 So we rebuilt the wall, and the entire wall was joined together up to half its height. 2 The people were enthusiastic in their work. 3
Nehemiah 4:10
Context4:10 Then those in Judah said, “The strength of the laborers 4 has failed! The debris is so great that we are unable to rebuild the wall.”
Nehemiah 5:3-4
Context5:3 There were others who said, “We are putting up our fields, our vineyards, and our houses as collateral in order to obtain grain during the famine.” 5:4 Then there were those who said, “We have borrowed money to pay our taxes to the king 5 on our fields and our vineyards.
Nehemiah 6:8
Context6:8 I sent word back to him, “We are not engaged in these activities you are describing. 6 All of this is a figment of your imagination.” 7
Nehemiah 9:33
Context9:33 You are righteous with regard to all that has happened to us, for you have acted faithfully. 8 It is we who have been in the wrong!
Nehemiah 10:32
Context10:32 We accept responsibility for fulfilling 9 the commands to give 10 one third of a shekel each year for the work of the temple 11 of our God,
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 12 foreign wives?”
1 sn Beginning with 4:1, the verse numbers through 4:23 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 4:1 ET = 3:33 HT, 4:2 ET = 3:34 HT, 4:3 ET = 3:35 HT, 4:4 ET = 3:36 HT, 4:5 ET = 3:37 HT, 4:6 ET = 3:38 HT, 4:7 ET = 4:1 HT, etc., through 4:23 ET = 4:17 HT. Thus in the Hebrew Bible chap. 3 of the Book of Nehemiah has 38 verses, while chap. 4 has only 17 verses.
2 tn Heb “up to its half.”
3 tn Heb “the people had a heart to work.”
4 tn Heb “burden-bearers.”
5 tn Heb “for the tax of the king.”
6 tn Heb “We are not according to these matters that you are saying.”
7 tn Heb “For from your heart you are inventing them.”
8 tn Heb “you have done truth.”
9 tn Heb “cause to stand on us.”
10 tc The MT reads “to give upon us.” However, the term עָלֵינוּ (’alenu, “upon us”) should probably be deleted, following a few medieval Hebrew
11 tn Heb “house” (also in vv. 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39).
12 tn Heb “give a dwelling to.”
