Discovery Box| (0.14) | Ezr 7:13 |
| I have now issued a decree 1 that anyone in my kingdom from the people of Israel – even the priests and Levites – who wishes to do so may go up with you to Jerusalem. 2 |
| (0.14) | Ezr 7:16 |
| along with all the silver and gold that you may collect 1 throughout all the province of Babylon and the contributions of the people and the priests for the temple of their God which is in Jerusalem. |
| (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 7:27 |
| 1 Blessed be the Lord God of our fathers, who so moved in the heart of the king to so honor the temple of the Lord which is in Jerusalem! |
| (0.14) | Ezr 8:25 |
| and I weighed out to them the silver, the gold, and the vessels intended for the temple of our God – items that the king, his advisers, his officials, and all Israel who were present had contributed. |
| (0.14) | Ezr 8:36 |
| Then they presented the decrees of the king to the king’s satraps and to the governors of Trans-Euphrates, who gave help to the people and to the temple of God. |
| (0.14) | Ezr 9:4 |
| Everyone who held the words of the God of Israel in awe 1 gathered around me because of the unfaithful acts of the people of the exile. 2 Devastated, I continued to sit there until the evening offering. |
| (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 2:1 |
| Then in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was brought to me, 1 I took the wine and gave it to the king. Previously 2 I had not been depressed 3 in the king’s presence. 4 |
| (0.14) | Neh 2:2 |
| So the king said to me, “Why do you appear to be depressed when you aren’t sick? What can this be other than sadness of heart?” This made me very fearful. |
| (0.14) | Neh 2:5 |
| and said to the king, “If the king is so inclined 1 and if your servant has found favor in your sight, dispatch me to Judah, to the city with the graves of my ancestors, so that I can rebuild it.” |
| (0.14) | Neh 2:6 |
| Then the king, with his consort 1 sitting beside him, replied, “How long would your trip take, and when would you return?” Since the king was amenable to dispatching me, 2 I gave him a time. |
| (0.14) | Neh 2:9 |
| Then I went to the governors of Trans-Euphrates, and I presented to them the letters from the king. The king had sent with me officers of the army and horsemen. |
| (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 2:20 |
| I responded to them by saying, “The God of heaven will prosper us. We his servants will start the rebuilding. 1 But you have no just or ancient right in Jerusalem.” 2 |
| (0.14) | Neh 3:6 |
| Joiada son of Paseah and Meshullam son of Besodeiah worked on the Jeshanah Gate. 1 They laid its beams and positioned its doors, its bolts, and its bars. |
| (0.14) | Neh 3:14 |
| Malkijah son of Recab, head of the district of Beth Hakkerem, worked on the Dung Gate. He rebuilt it and positioned its doors, its bolts, and its bars. |
| (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 4:3 |
| Then Tobiah the Ammonite, who was close by, said, “If even a fox were to climb up on what they are building, it would break down their wall of stones!” |
| (0.14) | Neh 4:15 |
| It so happened that when our adversaries heard that we were aware of these matters, 1 God frustrated their intentions. Then all of us returned to the wall, each to his own work. |
