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 2:18
Context2:18 Then I related to them how the good hand of my God was on me and what 4 the king had said to me. Then they replied, “Let’s begin rebuilding right away!” 5 So they readied themselves 6 for this good project.
Nehemiah 9:24
Context9:24 Their descendants 7 entered and possessed the land. You subdued before them the Canaanites who were the inhabitants of the land. You delivered them into their hand, together with their kings and the peoples of the land, to deal with as they pleased.
Nehemiah 9:27
Context9:27 Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who oppressed them. But in the time of their distress they called to you, and you heard from heaven. In your abundant compassion you provided them with deliverers to rescue them from 8 their adversaries.
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 words of the king which he had spoken to me.”
5 tn Heb “Arise! Let us rebuild!”
6 tn Heb “strengthened their hands.”
7 tn Heb “the sons.”
8 tn Heb “from the hand of” (so NASB, NIV); NAB “from the power of.”
