Discovery Box| (0.14) | Ezr 4:5 |
| They were hiring advisers to oppose them, so as to frustrate their plans, throughout the time 1 of King Cyrus of Persia until the reign of King Darius 2 of Persia. 3 |
| (0.14) | Ezr 4:13 |
| Let the king also be aware that if this city is built and its walls are completed, no more tax, custom, or toll will be paid, and the royal treasury 1 will suffer loss. |
| (0.14) | Ezr 5:5 |
| But God was watching over 1 the elders of Judah, and they were not stopped 2 until a report could be dispatched 3 to Darius and a letter could be sent back concerning this. |
| (0.14) | Ezr 5:12 |
| But after our ancestors 1 angered the God of heaven, he delivered them into the hands 2 of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this temple and exiled the people to Babylon. 3 |
| (0.14) | Ezr 5:15 |
| He said to him, “Take these vessels and go deposit them in the temple in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be rebuilt in its proper location.” 1 |
| (0.14) | Ezr 6:7 |
| Leave the work on this temple of God alone. 1 Let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews rebuild this temple of God in its proper place. |
| (0.14) | Ezr 7:23 |
| Everything that the God of heaven has required should be precisely done for the temple of the God of heaven. Why should there be wrath 1 against the empire of the king and his sons? |
| (0.14) | Ezr 10:8 |
| Everyone who did not come within three days would thereby forfeit all his property, in keeping with the counsel of the officials and the elders. Furthermore, he himself would be excluded from the assembly of the exiles. |
| (0.14) | Neh 2:13 |
| I proceeded through the Valley Gate by night, in the direction of the Well of the Dragons 1 and the Dung Gate, 2 inspecting 3 the walls of Jerusalem that had been breached and its gates that had been destroyed by fire. |
| (0.14) | Neh 2:16 |
| The officials did not know where I had gone or what I had been doing, for up to this point I had not told any of the Jews or the priests or the nobles or the officials or the rest of the workers. |
| (0.14) | Neh 3:8 |
| Uzziel son of Harhaiah, a member of the goldsmiths’ guild, worked on the section adjacent to him. Hananiah, a member of the perfumers’ guild, worked on the section adjacent to him. They plastered 1 the city wall of Jerusalem 2 as far as the Broad Wall. |
| (0.14) | Neh 3:16 |
| Nehemiah son of Azbuk, head of a half-district of Beth Zur, worked after him as far as the tombs of David and the artificial pool and the House of the Warriors. |
| (0.14) | Neh 4:16 |
| From that day forward, half of my men were doing the work and half of them were taking up spears, 1 shields, bows, and body armor. Now the officers were behind all the people 2 of Judah |
| (0.14) | Neh 4:23 |
| We did not change clothes 1 – not I, nor my relatives, nor my workers, nor the watchmen who were with me. Each had his weapon, even when getting a drink of water. 2 |
| (0.14) | Neh 6:2 |
| Sanballat and Geshem sent word to me saying, “Come on! Let’s set up a time to meet together at Kephirim 1 in the plain of Ono.” Now they intended to do me harm. |
| (0.14) | Neh 9:4 |
| Then the Levites – Jeshua, Binnui, 1 Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Kenani – stood on the steps and called out loudly 2 to the LORD their God. |
| (0.14) | Neh 9:37 |
| Its abundant produce goes to the kings you have placed over us due to our sins. They rule over our bodies and our livestock as they see fit, 1 and we are in great distress! |
| (0.14) | Neh 9:38 |
| (10:1) 1 “Because of all of this we are entering into a binding covenant 2 in written form; 3 our leaders, our Levites, and our priests have affixed their names 4 on the sealed document.” |
| (0.14) | Neh 13:18 |
| Isn’t this the way your ancestors 1 acted, causing our God to bring on them and on this city all this misfortune? And now you are causing even more wrath on Israel, profaning the Sabbath like this!” |
| (0.14) | Neh 13:21 |
| But I warned them and said, 1 “Why do you spend the night by the wall? If you repeat this, I will forcibly remove you!” 2 From that time on they did not show up on the Sabbath. 3 |
