Quotes about Author
of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin and of Moadiah, Piltai;
— Nehemiah 12:17
of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;
— Nehemiah 12:19
of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; and of Jedaiah, Nethanel.
— Nehemiah 12:21
Hoshaiah and half the leaders of Judah followed,
— Nehemiah 12:32
The second thanksgiving choir proceeded to the left, and I followed it with half the people along the top of the wall, past the Tower of the Ovens to the Broad Wall,
— Nehemiah 12:38
The two thanksgiving choirs then stood in the house of God, as did I, along with the half of the officials accompanying me,
— Nehemiah 12:40
because they had not met the Israelites with food and water, but had hired Balaam to call down a curse against them (although our God had turned the curse into a blessing).
— Nehemiah 13:2
While all this was happening, I was not in Jerusalem, because I had returned to Artaxerxes king of Babylon in the thirty-second year of his reign. Some time later I obtained leave from the king
— Nehemiah 13:6
Then I rebuked the nobles of Judah and asked, “What is this evil you are doing—profaning the Sabbath day?
— Nehemiah 13:17
Did not your forefathers do the same things, so that our God brought all this disaster on us and on this city? And now you are rekindling His wrath against Israel by profaning the Sabbath!”
— Nehemiah 13:18
This is what happened in the days of Xerxes, who reigned over 127 provinces from India to Cush.
— Esther 1:1
In those days King Xerxes sat on his royal throne in the citadel of Susa.
— Esther 1:2