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 4:5
Context4:5 Do not cover their iniquity, and do not wipe out their sin from before them. For they have bitterly offended 1 the builders! 2
Nehemiah 5:4
Context5:4 Then there were those who said, “We have borrowed money to pay our taxes to the king 3 on our fields and our vineyards.
1 tn The Hiphil stem of כָּעַס (ka’as) may mean: (1) “to provoke to anger”; (2) “to bitterly offend”; or (3) “to grieve” (BDB 495 s.v. Hiph.; HALOT 491 s.v. כעס hif). The Hebrew lexicons suggest that “bitterly offend” is the most appropriate nuance here.
2 tn Heb “before the builders.” The preposition נֶגֶד (neged, “before”) here connotes “in the sight of” or “in the view of” (BDB 617 s.v. 1.a; HALOT 666 s.v. 1.a).
3 tn Heb “for the tax of the king.”
