Discovery BoxNehemiah 5:13-14 
Context5:13 I also shook out my garment, 1 and I said, “In this way may God shake out from his house and his property every person who does not carry out 2 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. 3
5:14 From the day that I was appointed 4 governor 5 in the land of Judah, that is, from the twentieth year until the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes – twelve years in all – neither I nor my relatives 6 ate the food allotted to the governor. 7
Nehemiah 8:15
Context8:15 and that they should make a proclamation and disseminate this message 8 in all their cities and in Jerusalem: 9 “Go to the hill country and bring back olive branches and branches of wild olive trees, myrtle trees, date palms, and other leafy trees to construct temporary shelters, as it is written.”
Nehemiah 9:5
Context9:5 The Levites – Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah – said, “Stand up and bless the LORD your God!”
“May you be blessed, O LORD our God, from age to age. 10 May your glorious name 11 be blessed; may it be lifted up above all blessing and praise.
Nehemiah 9:25
Context9:25 They captured fortified cities and fertile land. They took possession of houses full of all sorts of good things – wells previously dug, vineyards, olive trees, and fruit trees in abundance. They ate until they were full 12 and grew fat. They enjoyed to the full your great goodness.
Nehemiah 10:29
Context10:29 hereby participate with their colleagues the town leaders 13 and enter into a curse and an oath 14 to adhere to 15 the law of God which was given through Moses the servant of God, and to obey 16 carefully all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, 17 along with his ordinances and his statutes.
Nehemiah 10:31
Context10:31 We will not buy 18 on the Sabbath or on a holy day from the neighboring peoples who bring their wares and all kinds of grain to sell on the Sabbath day. We will let the fields lie fallow every seventh year, and we will cancel every loan. 19
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 12:27
Context12:27 At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, 20 they sought out the Levites from all the places they lived 21 to bring them to Jerusalem to celebrate the dedication joyfully with songs of thanksgiving and songs accompanied by cymbals, harps, and lyres.
Nehemiah 12:47
Context12:47 So in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah, all Israel was contributing the portions for the singers and gatekeepers, according to the daily need. 22 They also set aside 23 the portion for the Levites, and the Levites set aside the portion for the descendants of Aaron.
Nehemiah 13:15
Context13:15 In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath, bringing in heaps of grain and loading them onto donkeys, along with wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads, and bringing them to Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I warned them on the day that they sold these provisions.
Nehemiah 13:26
Context13:26 Was it not because of things like these that King Solomon of Israel sinned? Among the many nations there was no king like him. He was loved by his God, and God made 24 him king over all Israel. But the foreign wives made even him sin!
1 tn Heb “my bosom.”
2 tn Heb “cause to stand.”
3 tn Heb “according to this word.”
4 tc The BHS editors suggest reading צֻוֵּאתִי (tsuvve’ti, “and I was appointed”) rather than the reading of the MT, אֹתִי צִוָּה (tsivvah ’oti, “he appointed me”).
5 tc The translation reads with one medieval Hebrew
6 tn Heb “brothers.”
7 tn Heb “the food of the governor.” Cf. v. 18.
8 tn Heb “a voice.”
9 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
10 tc The MT reads here only “from age to age,” without the preceding words “May you be blessed, O
11 tn Heb “the name of your glory.”
12 tn Heb “they ate and were sated.” This expression is a hendiadys. The first verb retains its full verbal sense, while the second functions adverbially: “they ate and were filled” = “they ate until they were full.”
13 tn Heb “the nobles.”
14 tn The expression “a curse and an oath” may be a hendiadys, meaning “an oath with penalties.”
15 tn Heb “to walk in.”
16 tn Heb “keep.” See the note on the word “obey” in Neh 1:5.
17 tn The Hebrew term translated “Lord” here is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).
18 tn Heb “take.”
19 tn Heb “debt of every hand,” an idiom referring to the hand that holds legally binding contractual agreements.
20 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
21 tn Heb “from all their places.” The words “they lived” are implied.
22 tn Heb “a thing of a day in its day.”
23 tn Heb “were sanctifying.”
24 tn Heb “gave.”
