Discovery BoxNehemiah 1:9 
Context1:9 But if you repent 1 and obey 2 my commandments and do them, then even if your dispersed people are in the most remote location, 3 I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen for my name to reside.’
Nehemiah 4:14
Context4:14 When I had made an inspection, 4 I stood up and said to the nobles, the officials, and the rest of the people, “Don’t be afraid of them. Remember the great and awesome Lord, 5 and fight on behalf of your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your families!” 6
Nehemiah 5:5
Context5:5 And now, though we share the same flesh and blood as our fellow countrymen, 7 and our children are just like their children, 8 still we have found it necessary to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. 9 Some of our daughters have been subjected to slavery, while we are powerless to help, 10 since our fields and vineyards now belong to other people.” 11
Nehemiah 5:13
Context5:13 I also shook out my garment, 12 and I said, “In this way may God shake out from his house and his property every person who does not carry out 13 this matter. In this way may he be shaken out and emptied!” All the assembly replied, “So be it!” and they praised the LORD. Then the people did as they had promised. 14
Nehemiah 5:18
Context5:18 Every day one ox, six select sheep, and some birds were prepared for me, and every ten days all kinds of wine in abundance. Despite all this I did not require the food allotted to the governor, for the work was demanding on this people.
Nehemiah 7:5
Context7:5 My God placed it on my heart to gather the leaders, 15 the officials, and the ordinary people so they could be enrolled on the basis of genealogy. I found the genealogical records 16 of those who had formerly returned. Here is what I found written in that record: 17
Nehemiah 8:16
Context8:16 So the people went out and brought these things 18 back and constructed temporary shelters for themselves, each on his roof and in his courtyard and in the courtyards of the temple 19 of God and in the plaza of the Water Gate and the plaza of the Ephraim Gate.
Nehemiah 9:32
Context9:32 “So now, our God – the great, powerful, and awesome God, who keeps covenant fidelity 20 – do not regard as inconsequential 21 all the hardship that has befallen us – our kings, our leaders, our priests, our prophets, our ancestors, and all your people – from the days of the kings of Assyria until this very day!
Nehemiah 10:28
Context10:28 “Now the rest of the people – the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple attendants, and all those who have separated themselves from the neighboring peoples 22 because of the law of God, along with their wives, their sons, and their daughters, all of whom are able to understand –
Nehemiah 10:34
Context10:34 “We – the priests, the Levites, and the people – have cast lots concerning the wood offerings, to bring them to the temple of our God according to our families 23 at the designated times year by year to burn on the altar of the LORD our God, as is written in the law.
Nehemiah 12:44
Context12:44 On that day men were appointed over the storerooms for the contributions, first fruits, and tithes, to gather into them from 24 the fields of the cities the portions prescribed by the law for the priests and the Levites, for the people of Judah 25 took delight in the priests and Levites who were ministering. 26
Nehemiah 13:15
Context13:15 In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath, bringing in heaps of grain and loading them onto donkeys, along with wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads, and bringing them to Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I warned them on the day that they sold these provisions.
1 tn Heb “turn to me.”
2 tn Heb “keep.” See the note on the word “obey” in Neh 1:5.
3 tn Heb “at the end of the heavens.”
4 tn Heb “And I saw.”
5 tn The Hebrew term translated “Lord” here is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).
6 tn Heb “houses.”
7 tn Heb “according to the flesh of our brothers is our flesh.”
8 tn Heb “like their children, our children.”
9 tn Heb “to become slaves” (also later in this verse).
10 tn Heb “there is not power for our hand.” The Hebrew expression used here is rather difficult.
11 sn The poor among the returned exiles were being exploited by their rich countrymen. Moneylenders were loaning large amounts of money, and not only collecting interest on loans which was illegal (Lev 25:36-37; Deut 23:19-20), but also seizing pledges as collateral (Neh 5:3) which was allowed (Deut 24:10). When the debtors missed a payment, the moneylenders would seize their collateral: their fields, vineyards and homes. With no other means of income, the debtors were forced to sell their children into slavery, a common practice at this time (Neh 5:5). Nehemiah himself was one of the moneylenders (Neh 5:10), but he insisted that seizure of collateral from fellow Jewish countrymen was ethically wrong (Neh 5:9).
12 tn Heb “my bosom.”
13 tn Heb “cause to stand.”
14 tn Heb “according to this word.”
15 tn Heb “nobles”; NCV “important men.”
16 tn Heb “the book of genealogy.”
17 tn Heb “in it”; the referent (the genealogical record) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
18 tn The words “these things” are not in the Hebrew text but have been supplied in the translation for clarity.
19 tn Heb “the house.”
20 tn Heb “the covenant and loyal love.” The expression is a hendiadys. The second noun retains its full nominal sense, while the first functions adjectivally: “the covenant and loyalty” = covenant fidelity.
21 tn Heb “do not let it seem small in your sight.”
22 tn Heb “from the peoples of the lands.” Cf. vv. 30, 31.
23 tn Heb “the house of our fathers.”
24 tc The translation reads מִשְּׂדֶי (missÿde, “from the fields”) rather than the MT reading לִשְׂדֵי (lisdey, “to the fields”).
25 tn Heb “for Judah.” The words “the people of” have been supplied in the translation for clarity, since “Judah” is a proper name as well as a place name.
26 tn Heb “standing.”
