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whereas the former governors, my predecessors, had been a burden on the people, from whom they took forty silver shekels a day for food and wine, while their attendants oppressed the people too. But I, fearing God, never did this. (Nehemiah 5, 15)
Every day, one ox, six fine sheep, as well as poultry, were prepared for me; every ten days, skins of wine were brought in bulk. But even so, I never claimed the governor's subsistence allowance, since the people already had burden enough to bear. (Nehemiah 5, 18)
Sanballat and Geshem sent me this message, 'Come and meet us at Ha-Chephirim in the Vale of Ono.' But they had evil designs on me. (Nehemiah 6, 2)
For they were all trying to terrorise us, thinking, 'They will become demoralised over the work and it will not get finished.' But my morale rose even higher. (Nehemiah 6, 9)
Then, when I went to visit Shemaiah son of Delaiah, son of Mehetabel, since he was prevented from coming to me, he said: We must gather at the Temple of God, inside the sanctuary itself; we must shut the sanctuary doors, for they are coming to kill you, they are coming to kill you tonight! (Nehemiah 6, 10)
But I retorted, 'Should a man like me run away? Would a man like me go into the Temple to save his life? I shall not go in!' (Nehemiah 6, 11)
I realised that God had not sent him to say this, but that he had produced this prophecy for me because Tobiah was paying him (Nehemiah 6, 12)
to terrorise me into doing as he said and committing a sin, so that they would have grounds for blackening my reputation and blaming me. (Nehemiah 6, 13)
When all our enemies heard about it and all the surrounding nations saw it, they thought it a wonderful thing, because they realised that this work had been accomplished by the power of our God. (Nehemiah 6, 16)
I said to them, 'The gates of Jerusalem must not be opened until the sun gets hot; and the doors must be shut and barred before it begins to go down. Detail guards from the residents of Jerusalem, each to his post, in front of his own house.' (Nehemiah 7, 3)
The city was large and spacious but the population was small, and the houses had not been rebuilt. (Nehemiah 7, 4)
These had looked for their entries in the official genealogies but were not to be found there, and were hence disqualified from the priesthood. (Nehemiah 7, 64)
