Discovery BoxNehemiah 2:6 
Context2:6 Then the king, with his consort 1 sitting beside him, replied, “How long would your trip take, and when would you return?” Since the king was amenable to dispatching me, 2 I gave him a time.
Nehemiah 2:9
Context2:9 Then I went to the governors of Trans-Euphrates, and I presented to them the letters from the king. The king had sent with me officers of the army and horsemen.
Nehemiah 2:17
Context2:17 Then I said to them, “You see the problem that we have: Jerusalem is desolate and its gates are burned. Come on! Let’s rebuild the wall of Jerusalem so that this reproach will not continue.”
Nehemiah 3:1
Context3:1 Then Eliashib the high priest and his priestly colleagues 3 arose and built the Sheep Gate. They dedicated 4 it and erected its doors, working as far as the Tower of the Hundred 5 and 6 the Tower of Hananel.
Nehemiah 4:3
Context4:3 Then Tobiah the Ammonite, who was close by, said, “If even a fox were to climb up on what they are building, it would break down their wall of stones!”
Nehemiah 4:15
Context4:15 It so happened that when our adversaries heard that we were aware of these matters, 7 God frustrated their intentions. Then all of us returned to the wall, each to his own work.
Nehemiah 5:9
Context5:9 Then I 8 said, “The thing that you are doing is wrong! 9 Should you not conduct yourselves 10 in the fear of our God in order to avoid the reproach of the Gentiles who are our enemies?
Nehemiah 6:19
Context6:19 They were telling me about his good deeds and then taking back to him the things I said. 11 Tobiah, on the other hand, sent letters in order to scare 12 me.
Nehemiah 7:2
Context7:2 I then put in charge over Jerusalem 13 my brother Hanani and Hananiah 14 the chief of the citadel, for he was a faithful man and feared God more than many do.
Nehemiah 8:6
Context8:6 Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God, and all the people replied “Amen! Amen!” as they lifted their hands. Then they bowed down and worshiped the LORD with their faces to the ground.
Nehemiah 13:7
Context13:7 and I returned to Jerusalem. Then I discovered the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah by supplying him with a storeroom in the courts of the temple of God.
Nehemiah 13:9
Context13:9 Then I gave instructions that the storerooms should be purified, and I brought back the equipment 15 of the temple of God, along with the grain offering and the incense.
1 tn Or “queen,” so most English versions (cf. HALOT 1415 s.v. שֵׁגַל); TEV “empress.”
2 tn Heb “It was good before the king and he sent me.”
3 tn Heb “his brothers the priests.”
4 tn Or “consecrated” (so NASB, NRSV); KJV, ASV “sanctified”; NCV “gave it to the Lord’s service.”
5 tc The MT adds קִדְּשׁוּהוּ (qidshuhu, “they sanctified it”). This term is repeated from the first part of the verse, probably as an intentional scribal addition to harmonize this statement with the preceding parallel statement.
6 tc The translation reads וְעַד (vÿ’ad, “and unto”) rather than the MT reading עַד (ad, “unto”). The original vav (ו) was probably dropped accidentally due to haplography with the final vav on the immediately preceding word in the MT.
7 tn Heb “it was known to us.”
8 tc The translation reads with the Qere and the ancient versions וָאוֹמַר (va’omar, “and I said”) rather than the MT Kethib, וַיֹּאמֶר (vayyo’mer, “and he said”).
9 tn Heb “not good.” The statement “The thing…is not good” is an example of tapeinosis, a figurative expression which emphasizes the intended point (“The thing…is wrong!”) by negating its opposite.
10 tn Heb “[should you not] walk.”
11 tn Heb “my words.”
12 tn Or “to intimidate” (so NIV, NRSV, NLT).
13 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
14 tn Some have suggested that “Hananiah” is another name for Hanani, Nehemiah’s brother, so that only one individual is mentioned here. However, the third person plural in v. 3 indicates two people are in view.
15 tn On the usage of this Hebrew word see HALOT 478-79 s.v. כְּלִי.
