having learned who Mordecai’s people were, he scorned the idea of killing only Mordecai. Instead Haman looked for a way to destroy all Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout the whole kingdom of Xerxes.Esther 3:6

Now there was in the citadel of Susa a Jew of the tribe of Benjamin, named Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, who had been carried into exile from Jerusalem by ​Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon …Esther 2:5-6

When the priests and Levites had purified themselves ceremonially, they purified the people, the gates and the wall.Nehemiah 12:30

The rest of the people … join their fellow Israelites … and bind themselves with a curse and an oath to follow the Law of God given through Moses the servant of God and to obey carefully all the commands, regulations and decrees of the Lord our Lord.Nehemiah 10:29

Then Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and teacher of the Law and the Levites who were instructing the people said to them all “This day is holy to the Lord your God. Do not mourn or weep.” For all the people had been weeping as they listened to the words of the Law.Nehemiah 8:9

Remember me with favour, my God, for all I have done for these people.Nehemiah 5:19

Meanwhile, the people in Judah said “The strength of the labourers is giving out and there is so much rubble that we cannot rebuild the wall.”Nehemiah 4:10

So the king asked me “Why does your face look so sad when you are not ill? This can be nothing but sadness of heart.” I was very much afraid.Nehemiah 2:2

While Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping and throwing himself down before the house of God, a large crowd of Israelites - men, women and children - gathered around him. They too wept bitterly.Ezra 10:1

For Ezra had devoted himself to the study and observance of the Law of the Lord, and to teaching its decrees and laws in Israel.Ezra 7:10