Discovery Box| (0.24) | 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. |
| (0.24) | Ezr 10:10 |
| Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have behaved in an unfaithful manner by taking foreign wives! This has contributed to the guilt of Israel. |
| (0.24) | Ezr 10:16 |
| So the exiles proceeded accordingly. Ezra the priest separated out 1 by name men who were leaders in their family groups. 2 They sat down to consider this matter on the first day of the tenth month, |
| (0.24) | Neh 1:3 |
| They said to me, “The remnant that remains from the exile there in the province are experiencing considerable 1 adversity and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem lies breached, and its gates have been burned down!” 2 |
| (0.24) | 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.” |
| (0.24) | 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. |
| (0.24) | 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 |
| (0.24) | Neh 3:13 |
| Hanun and the residents of Zanoah worked on the Valley Gate. They rebuilt it and positioned its doors, its bolts, and its bars, in addition to working on fifteen hundred feet 1 of the wall as far as the Dung Gate. |
| (0.24) | Neh 4:11 |
| Our adversaries also boasted, 1 “Before they are aware or anticipate 2 anything, we will come in among them and kill them, and we will bring this work to a halt!” |
| (0.24) | Neh 4:22 |
| At that time I instructed 1 the people, “Let every man and his coworker spend the night in Jerusalem and let them be guards for us by night and workers by day. |
| (0.24) | 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. |
| (0.24) | Neh 6:3 |
| So I sent messengers to them saying, “I am engaged in 1 an important work, and I am unable to come down. Why should the work come to a halt when I leave it to come down to you?” |
| (0.24) | Neh 6:19 |
| They were telling me about his good deeds and then taking back to him the things I said. 1 Tobiah, on the other hand, sent letters in order to scare 2 me. |
| (0.24) | Neh 7:2 |
| I then put in charge over Jerusalem 1 my brother Hanani and Hananiah 2 the chief of the citadel, for he was a faithful man and feared God more than many do. |
| (0.24) | Neh 8:3 |
| So he read it before the plaza in front of the Water Gate from dawn till noon 1 before the men and women and those children who could understand. 2 All the people were eager to hear 3 the book of the law. |
| (0.24) | Neh 8:5 |
| Ezra opened the book in plain view 1 of all the people, for he was elevated above all the people. When he opened the book, 2 all the people stood up. |
| (0.24) | Neh 8:12 |
| So all the people departed to eat and drink and to share their food 1 with others 2 and to enjoy tremendous joy, 3 for they had gained insight in the matters that had been made known to them. |
| (0.24) | Neh 8:17 |
| So all the assembly which had returned from the exile constructed temporary shelters and lived in them. The Israelites had not done so from the days of Joshua son of Nun until that day. Everyone experienced very great joy. 1 |
| (0.24) | Neh 8:18 |
| Ezra 1 read in the book of the law of God day by day, from the first day to the last. 2 They observed the festival for seven days, and on the eighth day they held an assembly 3 as was required. 4 |
| (0.24) | Neh 9:3 |
| For one-fourth of the day they stood in their place and read from the book of the law of the LORD their God, and for another fourth they were confessing their sins 1 and worshiping the LORD their God. |
