Discovery BoxNehemiah 2:5
Context2:5 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.”
Nehemiah 2:8
Context2:8 and a letter for Asaph the keeper of the king’s nature preserve, 2 so that he will give me timber for beams for the gates of the fortress adjacent to the temple and for the city wall 3 and for the house to which I go.” So the king granted me these requests, 4 for the good hand of my God was on me.
Nehemiah 3:15
Context3:15 Shallun son of Col-Hozeh, head of the district of Mizpah, worked on the Fountain Gate. He rebuilt it, put on its roof, and positioned its doors, its bolts, and its bars. In addition, he rebuilt the wall of the Pool of Siloam, 5 by the royal garden, as far as the steps that go down from the City of David.
Nehemiah 8:15
Context8:15 and that they should make a proclamation and disseminate this message 6 in all their cities and in Jerusalem: 7 “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 9:25
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 8 and grew fat. They enjoyed to the full your great goodness.
Nehemiah 10:37
Context10:37 We will also bring the first of our coarse meal, of our contributions, of the fruit of every tree, of new wine, and of olive oil to the priests at the storerooms of the temple of our God, along with a tenth of the produce 9 of our land to the Levites, for the Levites are the ones who collect the tithes in all the cities where we work. 10
Nehemiah 12:44
Context12:44 On that day men were appointed over the storerooms for the contributions, first fruits, and tithes, to gather into them from 11 the fields of the cities the portions prescribed by the law for the priests and the Levites, for the people of Judah 12 took delight in the priests and Levites who were ministering. 13
Nehemiah 13:18
Context13:18 Isn’t this the way your ancestors 14 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!”
[2:5] 1 tn Heb “If upon the king it is good.” So also in v. 7.
[2:8] 2 tn Or “forest.” So HALOT 963 s.v. פַּרְדֵּס 2.
[2:8] 3 tc One medieval Hebrew
[2:8] 4 tn The Hebrew text does not include the expression “these requests,” but it is implied.
[3:15] 3 tn The Hebrew word translated “Siloam” is הַשֶּׁלַח (hashelakh, “water-channel”; cf. ASV, NASB, NRSV, TEV, CEV “Shelah”). It apparently refers to the Pool of Siloam whose water supply came from the Gihon Spring via Hezekiah’s Tunnel built in 701
[8:15] 5 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
[9:25] 5 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.”
[10:37] 6 tn Heb “a tithe of our land.”
[10:37] 7 tn Heb “of our work.”
[12:44] 7 tc The translation reads מִשְּׂדֶי (missÿde, “from the fields”) rather than the MT reading לִשְׂדֵי (lisdey, “to the fields”).
[12:44] 8 tn Heb “for Judah.” The words “the people of” have been supplied in the translation for clarity, since “Judah” is a proper name as well as a place name.
