Nehemiah 1:2

1:2 Hanani, who was one of my relatives, ¹  along with some of the men from Judah, came to me, ²  and I asked them about the Jews who had escaped and had survived the exile, and about Jerusalem. ³ 

Nehemiah 3:7

3:7 Adjacent to them worked Melatiah the Gibeonite and Jadon the Meronothite, who were men of Gibeon and Mizpah. These towns were under the jurisdiction ⁴  of the governor of Trans-Euphrates.

Nehemiah 4:22-23

4:22 At that time I instructed ⁵  the people, “Let every man and his coworker spend the night in Jerusalem and let them be guards for us by night and workers by day. 4:23 We did not change clothes ⁶  – not I, nor my relatives, nor my workers, nor the watchmen who were with me. Each had his weapon, even when getting a drink of water. ⁷ 

Nehemiah 5:17

5:17 There were 150 Jews and officials who dined with me routinely, ⁸  in addition to those who came to us from the nations ⁹  all around us.

Nehemiah 6:11

6:11 But I replied, “Should a man like me run away? Would someone like me flee to the temple in order to save his life? ¹⁰  I will not go!”

Nehemiah 7:2

7:2 I then put in charge over Jerusalem ¹¹  my brother Hanani and Hananiah ¹²  the chief of the citadel, for he was a faithful man and feared God more than many do.

Nehemiah 7:6-7

7:6 These are the people ¹³  of the province who returned ¹⁴  from the captivity of the exiles, whom King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had forced into exile. ¹⁵  They returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, each to his own city. 7:7 They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, and Baanah.

The number of Israelite men ¹⁶  was as follows:

Nehemiah 8:2

8:2 So Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly which included men and women and all those able to understand what they heard. (This happened on the first day of the seventh month.)

Nehemiah 12:24

12:24 And the leaders of the Levites were Hashabiah, Sherebiah, Jeshua son of Kadmiel, and their colleagues, who stood opposite them to offer praise and thanks, one contingent corresponding to the other, as specified by ¹⁷  David the man of God.

Nehemiah 12:36

12:36 and his colleagues – Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani – with musical instruments of ¹⁸  David the man of God. (Ezra the scribe led them.) ¹⁹ 

Nehemiah 13:10

13:10 I also discovered that the grain offerings for the Levites had not been provided, and that as a result the Levites and the singers who performed this work had all gone off to their fields.

Nehemiah 13:25

13:25 So I entered a complaint with them. I called down a curse on them, and I struck some of the men and pulled out their hair. I had them swear by God saying, “You will not marry off ²⁰  your daughters to their sons, and you will not take any of their daughters as wives for your sons or for yourselves!

¹ tn Heb “brothers.”

² tn The Hebrew text does not include the words “to me”; these words were supplied in the translation for the sake of clarity.

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⁴ tn Heb “to the seat.”

⁷ tn Heb “said [to].”

¹⁰ tn Heb “strip off our garments.”

¹¹ tc Heb “a man, his weapon, the waters.” The MT, if in fact it is correct, is elliptical and difficult. Some scholars emend the MT reading הַמָּיִם (hammayim, “the waters”) to בִּמִנוֹ (bimino, “in his right hand”; cf. NAB, NRSV) or מִינוּ(י)הֵ (heminu, “they held on the right side”).

¹³ tn Heb “who were gathered around us at my table.”

¹⁴ tn Or “from the Gentiles.” The same Hebrew word can refer to “the Gentiles” or “the nations.” Cf. the phrase in 6:16.

¹⁶ tn Heb “go into the temple and live.”

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²⁰ tn Some have suggested that “Hananiah” is another name for Hanani, Nehemiah’s brother, so that only one individual is mentioned here. However, the third person plural in v. 3 indicates two people are in view.

²² tn Heb “the sons of”; KJV, ASV “the children of”; NAB “the inhabitants of.”

²³ tn Heb “who were going up.”

²⁴ tc One medieval Hebrew manuscript has “to Babylon.” Cf. Ezra 2:1.

²⁵ tn Heb “the men of the people of Israel.” Some English versions translate as “the people from Israel” (NCV) or “the Israelite people” (NRSV), but “men” should be retained because the following numbers presumably include only adult males.

²⁸ tn Heb “in [accord with] the commandment of.”

³¹ tn Or “prescribed by” (NIV, NLT); TEV “of the kind played by.” The precise relationship of these musical instruments to David is not clear.

³² tn Heb “was before them.”

³⁴ tn Heb “give.”