Discovery BoxNehemiah 2:12 
Context2:12 I got up during the night, along with a few men who were with me. But I did not tell anyone what my God was putting on my heart to do for Jerusalem. There were no animals with me, except for the one 1 I was riding.
Nehemiah 2:18
Context2:18 Then I related to them how the good hand of my God was on me and what 2 the king had said to me. Then they replied, “Let’s begin rebuilding right away!” 3 So they readied themselves 4 for this good project.
Nehemiah 2:20
Context2:20 I responded to them by saying, “The God of heaven will prosper us. We his servants will start the rebuilding. 5 But you have no just or ancient right in Jerusalem.” 6
Nehemiah 6:16
Context6:16 When all our enemies heard and all the nations who were around us saw 7 this, they were greatly disheartened. 8 They knew that this work had been accomplished with the help of our God.
Nehemiah 7:5
Context7:5 My God placed it on my heart to gather the leaders, 9 the officials, and the ordinary people so they could be enrolled on the basis of genealogy. I found the genealogical records 10 of those who had formerly returned. Here is what I found written in that record: 11
Nehemiah 8:18
Context8:18 Ezra 12 read in the book of the law of God day by day, from the first day to the last. 13 They observed the festival for seven days, and on the eighth day they held an assembly 14 as was required. 15
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 16 because of the law of God, along with their wives, their sons, and their daughters, all of whom are able to understand –
Nehemiah 10:33
Context10:33 for the loaves of presentation and for the regular grain offerings and regular burnt offerings, for the Sabbaths, for the new moons, for the appointed meetings, for the holy offerings, for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the temple of our God.
Nehemiah 10:39
Context10:39 The Israelites and the Levites will bring the contribution of the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil to the storerooms where the utensils of the sanctuary are kept, and where the priests who minister stay, along with the gatekeepers and the singers. We will not neglect the temple of our God.”
Nehemiah 12:24
Context12:24 And the leaders of the Levites were Hashabiah, Sherebiah, Jeshua son of Kadmiel, and their colleagues, who stood opposite them to offer praise and thanks, one contingent corresponding to the other, as specified by 17 David the man of God.
Nehemiah 12:43
Context12:43 And on that day they offered great sacrifices and rejoiced, for God had given them great joy. The women and children also rejoiced. The rejoicing in Jerusalem could be heard from far away.
Nehemiah 13:18
Context13:18 Isn’t this the way your ancestors 18 acted, causing our God to bring on them and on this city all this misfortune? And now you are causing even more wrath on Israel, profaning the Sabbath like this!”
Nehemiah 13:22
Context13:22 Then I directed the Levites to purify themselves and come and guard the gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy.
For this please remember me, O my God, and have pity on me in keeping with your great love.
1 tn Heb “the animal.”
2 tn Heb “the words of the king which he had spoken to me.”
3 tn Heb “Arise! Let us rebuild!”
4 tn Heb “strengthened their hands.”
5 tn Heb “will arise and build.” The idiom “arise and…” means to begin the action described by the second verb.
6 tn Heb “portion or right or remembrance.” The expression is probably a hendiatris: The first two nouns retain their full nominal function, while the third noun functions adjectivally (“right or remembrance” = “ancient right”).
7 tc The MT understands the root here to be יָרֵא (yare’, “to fear”) rather than רָאָה (ra’ah, “to see”).
8 tn Heb “they greatly fell [i.e., were cast down] in their own eyes.” Some scholars suggest emending the reading of the MT, וַיִּפְּלוּ (vayyipÿlu) to וַיִּפָּלֵא (vayyippale’, “it was very extraordinary in their eyes”).
9 tn Heb “nobles”; NCV “important men.”
10 tn Heb “the book of genealogy.”
11 tn Heb “in it”; the referent (the genealogical record) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
12 tn Heb “He”; the referent (Ezra) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
13 tn Heb “the last day.”
14 tn Heb “on the eighth day an assembly.” The words “they held” have been supplied in the translation for clarity.
15 tn Heb “according to the judgment.”
16 tn Heb “from the peoples of the lands.” Cf. vv. 30, 31.
17 tn Heb “in [accord with] the commandment of.”
18 tn Heb “your fathers.”
