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 9:19
Context9:19 “Due to your great compassion you did not abandon them in the desert. The pillar of cloud did not stop guiding them in the path by day, 4 nor did the pillar of fire stop illuminating for them by night the path on which they should travel.
Nehemiah 9:29
Context9:29 And you solemnly admonished them in order to return them to your law, but they behaved presumptuously and did not obey your commandments. They sinned against your ordinances – those by which an individual, if he obeys them, 5 will live. They boldly turned from you; 6 they rebelled 7 and did not obey.
Nehemiah 10:29
Context10:29 hereby participate with their colleagues the town leaders 8 and enter into a curse and an oath 9 to adhere to 10 the law of God which was given through Moses the servant of God, and to obey 11 carefully all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, 12 along with his ordinances and his statutes.
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 “did not turn from them by day to guide them in the path.”
5 tn Heb “if a man keep.” See note on the word “obey” in Neh 1:5.
6 tn Heb “they gave a stubborn shoulder.”
7 tn Heb “they stiffened their neck.”
8 tn Heb “the nobles.”
9 tn The expression “a curse and an oath” may be a hendiadys, meaning “an oath with penalties.”
10 tn Heb “to walk in.”
11 tn Heb “keep.” See the note on the word “obey” in Neh 1:5.
12 tn The Hebrew term translated “Lord” here is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).
