Discovery BoxNehemiah 2:8 
Context2:8 and a letter for Asaph the keeper of the king’s nature preserve, 1 so that he will give me timber for beams for the gates of the fortress adjacent to the temple and for the city wall 2 and for the house to which I go.” So the king granted me these requests, 3 for the good hand of my God was on me.
Nehemiah 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 4 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 5 the king had said to me. Then they replied, “Let’s begin rebuilding right away!” 6 So they readied themselves 7 for this good project.
Nehemiah 5:13
Context5:13 I also shook out my garment, 8 and I said, “In this way may God shake out from his house and his property every person who does not carry out 9 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. 10
Nehemiah 5:15
Context5:15 But the former governors who preceded me had burdened the people and had taken food and wine from them, in addition to 11 forty shekels of silver. Their associates were also domineering over the people. But I did not behave in this way, due to my fear of God.
Nehemiah 7:5
Context7:5 My God placed it on my heart to gather the leaders, 12 the officials, and the ordinary people so they could be enrolled on the basis of genealogy. I found the genealogical records 13 of those who had formerly returned. Here is what I found written in that record: 14
Nehemiah 8:9
Context8:9 Then Nehemiah the governor, 15 Ezra the priestly scribe, 16 and the Levites who were imparting understanding to the people said to all of them, 17 “This day is holy to the LORD your God. Do not mourn or weep.” For all the people had been weeping when they heard the words of the law.
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 9:17
Context9:17 They refused to obey and did not recall your miracles that you had performed among them. Instead, they rebelled and appointed a leader to return to their bondage in Egypt. 20 But you are a God of forgiveness, merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and unfailing in your loyal love. 21 You did not abandon them,
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 10:33
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 10:38-39
Context10:38 A priest of Aaron’s line 23 will be with the Levites when the Levites collect the tithes, and the Levites will bring up a tenth of the tithes to the temple of our God, to the storerooms of the treasury. 10:39 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 11:22
Context11:22 The overseer of the Levites in Jerusalem was Uzzi son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Mica. He was one of Asaph’s descendants who were the singers responsible for the service of the temple of God.
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.
Nehemiah 13:25
Context13:25 So I entered a complaint with them. I called down a curse on them, and I struck some of the men and pulled out their hair. I had them swear by God saying, “You will not marry off 24 your daughters to their sons, and you will not take any of their daughters as wives for your sons or for yourselves!
1 tn Or “forest.” So HALOT 963 s.v. פַּרְדֵּס 2.
2 tc One medieval Hebrew
3 tn The Hebrew text does not include the expression “these requests,” but it is implied.
4 tn Heb “the animal.”
5 tn Heb “the words of the king which he had spoken to me.”
6 tn Heb “Arise! Let us rebuild!”
7 tn Heb “strengthened their hands.”
8 tn Heb “my bosom.”
9 tn Heb “cause to stand.”
10 tn Heb “according to this word.”
11 tc The Hebrew term אַחַר (’akhar) is difficult here. It normally means “after,” but that makes no sense here. Some scholars emend it to אַחַד (’akhad) and supply the word “day,” which yields the sense “daily.” Cf. TEV “40 silver coins a day for food and wine.”
12 tn Heb “nobles”; NCV “important men.”
13 tn Heb “the book of genealogy.”
14 tn Heb “in it”; the referent (the genealogical record) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
15 tc The unexpected reference to Nehemiah here has led some scholars to suspect that the phrase “Nehemiah the governor” is a later addition to the text and not original.
16 tn Heb “the priest, the scribe.”
17 tn Heb “the people.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy.
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 tc The present translation follows a few medieval Hebrew
21 tc The translation follows the Qere reading חֶסֶד (khesed, “loyal love”) rather than the Kethib reading וְחֶסֶד (vÿkhesed, “and loyal love”) of the MT.
22 tn Heb “from the peoples of the lands.” Cf. vv. 30, 31.
23 tn Heb “And the priest the son of Aaron.”
24 tn Heb “give.”
