Discovery BoxNehemiah 2:10 
Context2:10 When Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official 1 heard all this, they were very displeased that someone had come to seek benefit for the Israelites.
Nehemiah 3:26
Context3:26 and the temple servants who were living on Ophel worked 2 up to the area opposite the Water Gate toward the east and the protruding tower.
Nehemiah 4:1
Context4:1 (3:33) 3 Now when Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall he became angry and was quite upset. He derided the Jews,
Nehemiah 4:6
Context4:6 So we rebuilt the wall, and the entire wall was joined together up to half its height. 4 The people were enthusiastic in their work. 5
Nehemiah 4:18
Context4:18 The builders to a man had their swords strapped to their sides while they were building. But the trumpeter 6 remained with me.
Nehemiah 5:2-4
Context5:2 There were those who said, “With our sons and daughters, we are many. We must obtain 7 grain in order to eat and stay alive.” 5:3 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 8 on our fields and our vineyards.
Nehemiah 5:16-17
Context5:16 I gave myself to the work on this wall, without even purchasing 9 a field. All my associates were gathered there for the work.
5:17 There were 150 Jews and officials who dined with me routinely, 10 in addition to those who came to us from the nations 11 all around us.
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 6:17
Context6:17 In those days the aristocrats of Judah repeatedly sent letters to Tobiah, and responses from Tobiah were repeatedly coming to them.
Nehemiah 7:4
Context7:4 Now the city was spread out 12 and large, and there were not a lot of people in it. 13 At that time houses had not been rebuilt.
Nehemiah 9:1
Context9:1 On the twenty-fourth day of this same month the Israelites assembled; they were fasting and wearing sackcloth, their heads covered with dust.
Nehemiah 9:12
Context9:12 You guided them with a pillar of cloud by day and with a pillar of fire by night to illumine for them the path they were to travel.
Nehemiah 11:13
Context11:13 and his colleagues who were heads of families 14 – 242; and Amashsai son of Azarel, the son of Ahzai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer,
Nehemiah 11:20
Context11:20 And the rest of the Israelites, with the priests and the Levites, were in all the cities of Judah, each on his own property.
Nehemiah 11:30
Context11:30 Zanoah, Adullam and their settlements, in Lachish and its fields, and in Azekah and its villages. So they were encamped from Beer Sheba to the Valley of Hinnom.
Nehemiah 12:23
Context12:23 The descendants of Levi were recorded in the Book of the Chronicles 15 as heads of families up to the days of Johanan son of Eliashib.
Nehemiah 13:24
Context13:24 Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod (or the language of one of the other peoples mentioned 16 ) and were unable to speak the language of Judah.
1 tn Heb “servant” (so KJV, ASV; NAB “slave”; NCV “officer.” This phrase also occurs in v. 19.
2 tc The Hebrew text lacks the verb “worked.” It is implied, however, and has been supplied in the translation.
3 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.
4 tn Heb “up to its half.”
5 tn Heb “the people had a heart to work.”
6 tn Heb “the one blowing the shophar.”
7 tn Heb “take” (so also in v. 3).
8 tn Heb “for the tax of the king.”
9 tn Heb “we did not purchase.”
10 tn Heb “who were gathered around us at my table.”
11 tn Or “from the Gentiles.” The same Hebrew word can refer to “the Gentiles” or “the nations.” Cf. the phrase in 6:16.
12 tn Heb “wide of two hands.”
13 tn Heb “the people were few in its midst.”
14 tn Heb “heads of fathers.”
15 tn Or “the Book of the Annals” (so NRSV); NLT “The Book of History.”
16 tn Heb “people and people.”
