Discovery BoxNehemiah 3:2 
Context3:2 The men of Jericho 1 built adjacent to it, and Zaccur son of Imri built adjacent to them. 2
Nehemiah 3:9
Context3:9 Rephaiah son of Hur, head of a half-district of Jerusalem, worked on the section adjacent to them.
Nehemiah 4:8-9
Context4:8 All of them conspired together to move with armed forces 3 against Jerusalem and to create a disturbance in it. 4:9 So we prayed to our God and stationed a guard to protect against them 4 both day and night.
Nehemiah 11:14
Context11:14 and his colleagues 5 who were exceptional men – 128. The officer over them was Zabdiel the son of Haggedolim.
Nehemiah 13:29-30
Context13:29 Please remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, the covenant of the priesthood, 6 and the Levites.
13:30 So I purified them of everything foreign, and I assigned specific 7 duties to the priests and the Levites.
1 map For the location of Jericho see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
2 tn Heb “it.”
3 tn Heb “to fight.”
4 tn Heb “against them.” The words “to protect” are added in the translation for the sake of clarity and smoothness. Some emend MT עֲלֵיהֶם (’alehem, “against them”) to עָלֶיהָ (’aleha, “against it,” i.e., Jerusalem).
5 tc The translation reads with the LXX וְאֶחָיו (vÿ’ekhayv, “and his brothers”) rather than the MT reading וַאֲחֵיהֶם (va’akhehem, “and their brothers”).
6 tc One medieval Hebrew
7 tn Heb “a man in his work.”
