Discovery Box| (0.15) | Ezr 7:1 |
| Now after these things had happened, during the reign of King Artaxerxes 1 of Persia, Ezra came up from Babylon. 2 Ezra was the son of Seraiah, who was the son of Azariah, who was the son of Hilkiah, |
| (0.15) | Neh 1:4 |
| When I heard these things I sat down abruptly, 1 crying and mourning for several days. I continued fasting and praying before the God of heaven. |
| (0.15) | Neh 3:11 |
| Malkijah son of Harim and Hasshub son of Pahath-Moab worked on another section and the Tower of the Fire Pots. |
| (0.15) | Neh 3:23 |
| After them Benjamin and Hasshub worked opposite their house. After them Azariah son of Maaseiah, the son of Ananiah, worked near his house. |
| (0.15) | Neh 7:65 |
| The governor 1 instructed them not to eat any of the sacred food until there was a priest who could consult 2 the Urim and Thummim. |
| (0.15) | Neh 7:71 |
| Some of the family leaders gave to the project treasury 20,000 gold drachmas and 2,200 silver minas. |
| (0.15) | Neh 9:1 |
| On the twenty-fourth day of this same month the Israelites assembled; they were fasting and wearing sackcloth, their heads covered with dust. |
| (0.15) | Neh 12:29 |
| and from Beth Gilgal and from the fields of Geba and Azmaveth, for the singers had built settlements for themselves around Jerusalem. |
| (0.15) | Neh 13:2 |
| for they had not met the Israelites with food 1 and water, but instead had hired Balaam to curse them. (Our God, however, turned the curse into blessing.) |
| (0.15) | Neh 13:6 |
| During all this time I was not in Jerusalem, 1 for in the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes of Babylon, I had gone back to the king. After some time 2 I had requested leave of the king, |
| (0.15) | Neh 13:16 |
| The people from Tyre 1 who lived there were bringing fish and all kinds of merchandise and were selling it on the Sabbath to the people of Judah – and in Jerusalem, of all places! 2 |
| (0.15) | Est 2:1 |
| When these things had been accomplished 1 and the rage of King Ahasuerus had diminished, he remembered 2 Vashti and what she had done and what had been decided 3 against her. |
| (0.15) | Est 2:10 |
| Now Esther had not disclosed her people or her lineage, 1 for Mordecai had instructed her not to do so. 2 |
| (0.15) | Est 3:14 |
| A copy of this edict was to be presented as law throughout every province; it was to be made known to all the inhabitants, 1 so that they would be prepared for this day. |
| (0.15) | Est 5:6 |
| While at the banquet of wine, the king said to Esther, “What is your request? It shall be given to you. What is your petition? Ask for as much as half the kingdom, 1 and it shall be done!” |
| (0.15) | Est 5:10 |
| But Haman restrained himself and went on to his home. He then sent for his friends to join him, 1 along with his wife Zeresh. |
| (0.15) | Est 8:13 |
| A copy of the edict was to be presented as law throughout each and every province and made known to all peoples, so that the Jews might be prepared on that 1 day to avenge themselves from their enemies. |
| (0.15) | Est 9:18 |
| But the Jews who were in Susa assembled on the thirteenth and fourteenth days, and rested on the fifteenth, making it a day for banqueting and happiness. |
| (0.15) | Job 1:13 |
| Now the day 2 came when Job’s 3 sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house, |
| (0.15) | Job 1:15 |
| and the Sabeans 1 swooped down 2 and carried them all away, and they killed 3 the servants with the sword! 4 And I – only I alone 5 – escaped to tell you!” |
