Nehemiah 1:10
1:10 They are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your mighty strength and by your powerful hand.
Nehemiah 5:2-4
5:2 There were those who said, “With our sons and daughters, we are many. We must obtain
1 grain in order to eat and stay alive.”
5:3 There were others who said, “We are putting up our fields, our vineyards, and our houses as collateral in order to obtain grain during the famine.”
5:4 Then there were those who said, “We have borrowed money to pay our taxes to the king
2 on our fields and our vineyards.
Nehemiah 5:19
5:19 Please remember me for good, O my God, for all that I have done for this people.
Nehemiah 9:23
9:23 You multiplied their descendants like the stars of the sky. You brought them to the land you had told their ancestors to enter in order to possess.
1 tn Heb “take” (so also in v. 3).
1 tn Heb “for the tax of the king.”