Nehemiah 1:9

1:9 But if you repent ¹  and obey ²  my commandments and do them, then even if your dispersed people are in the most remote location, ³  I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen for my name to reside.’

Nehemiah 1:11

1:11 Please, ⁴  O Lord, listen attentively ⁵  to the prayer of your servant and to the prayer of your servants who take pleasure in showing respect ⁶  to your name. Grant your servant success today and show compassion to me ⁷  in the presence of this man.”

Now ⁸  I was cupbearer for the king.

Nehemiah 2:7-8

2:7 I said to the king, “If the king is so inclined, let him give me letters for the governors of Trans-Euphrates ⁹  that will enable me to travel safely until I reach Judah, 2:8 and a letter for Asaph the keeper of the king’s nature preserve, ¹⁰  so that he will give me timber for beams for the gates of the fortress adjacent to the temple and for the city wall ¹¹  and for the house to which I go.” So the king granted me these requests, ¹²  for the good hand of my God was on me.

Nehemiah 2:12

2:12 I got up during the night, along with a few men who were with me. But I did not tell anyone what my God was putting on my heart to do for Jerusalem. There were no animals with me, except for the one ¹³  I was riding.

Nehemiah 4:19

4:19 I said to the nobles, the officials, and the rest of the people, “The work is demanding ¹⁴  and extensive, and we are spread out on the wall, far removed from one another.

Nehemiah 7:5

7:5 My God placed it on my heart to gather the leaders, ¹⁵  the officials, and the ordinary people so they could be enrolled on the basis of genealogy. I found the genealogical records ¹⁶  of those who had formerly returned. Here is what I found written in that record: ¹⁷ 

Nehemiah 8:1

8:1 all the people gathered together ¹⁸  in the plaza which was in front of the Water Gate. They asked ¹⁹  Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses which the LORD had commanded Israel.

Nehemiah 8:3

8:3 So he read it before the plaza in front of the Water Gate from dawn till noon ²⁰  before the men and women and those children who could understand. ²¹  All the people were eager to hear ²²  the book of the law.

Nehemiah 8:9

8:9 Then Nehemiah the governor, ²³  Ezra the priestly scribe, ²⁴  and the Levites who were imparting understanding to the people said to all of them, ²⁵  “This day is holy to the LORD your God. Do not mourn or weep.” For all the people had been weeping when they heard the words of the law.

Nehemiah 9:29

9:29 And you solemnly admonished them in order to return them to your law, but they behaved presumptuously and did not obey your commandments. They sinned against your ordinances – those by which an individual, if he obeys them, ²⁶  will live. They boldly turned from you; ²⁷  they rebelled ²⁸  and did not obey.

Nehemiah 9:32

9:32 “So now, our God – the great, powerful, and awesome God, who keeps covenant fidelity ²⁹  – do not regard as inconsequential ³⁰  all the hardship that has befallen us – our kings, our leaders, our priests, our prophets, our ancestors, and all your people – from the days of the kings of Assyria until this very day!

Nehemiah 10:28

10:28 “Now the rest of the people – the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple attendants, and all those who have separated themselves from the neighboring peoples ³¹  because of the law of God, along with their wives, their sons, and their daughters, all of whom are able to understand –

Nehemiah 10:37-39

10:37 We will also bring the first of our coarse meal, of our contributions, of the fruit of every tree, of new wine, and of olive oil to the priests at the storerooms of the temple of our God, along with a tenth of the produce ³²  of our land to the Levites, for the Levites are the ones who collect the tithes in all the cities where we work. ³³  10:38 A priest of Aaron’s line ³⁴  will be with the Levites when the Levites collect the tithes, and the Levites will bring up a tenth of the tithes to the temple of our God, to the storerooms of the treasury. 10:39 The Israelites and the Levites will bring the contribution of the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil to the storerooms where the utensils of the sanctuary are kept, and where the priests who minister stay, along with the gatekeepers and the singers. We will not neglect the temple of our God.”

Nehemiah 13:6

13:6 During all this time I was not in Jerusalem, ³⁵  for in the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes of Babylon, I had gone back to the king. After some time ³⁶  I had requested leave of the king,

¹ tn Heb “turn to me.”

² tn Heb “keep.” See the note on the word “obey” in Neh 1:5.

³ tn Heb “at the end of the heavens.”

⁴ tn The interjection אָנָּא (’anna’) is an emphatic term of entreaty: “please!” (BDB 58 s.v.; HALOT 69-70 s.v.). This term is normally reserved for pleas for mercy from God in life-and-death situations (2 Kgs 20:3 = Isa 38:3; Pss 116:4; 118:25; Jonah 1:14; 4:2) and for forgiveness of heinous sins that would result or have resulted in severe judgment from God (Exod 32:31; Dan 9:4; Neh 1:5, 11).

⁵ tn Heb “let your ear be attentive.”

⁶ tn Heb “fear.”

⁷ tn Heb “grant compassion.” The words “to me” are supplied in the translation for the sake of smoothness and style in English.

⁸ tn The vav (ו) on וַאֲנִי (va’ani, “Now, I”) introduces a disjunctive parenthetical clause that provides background information to the reader.

⁷ tn Heb “across the river,” here and often elsewhere in the Book of Nehemiah.

¹⁰ tn Or “forest.” So HALOT 963 s.v. פַּרְדֵּס 2.

¹¹ tc One medieval Hebrew MS, the Syriac Peshitta, Vulgate, and the Arabic read here the plural וּלְחוֹמוֹת (ulÿkhomot, “walls”) against the singular וּלְחוֹמַת (ulÿkhomat) in the MT. The plural holem vav (וֹ) might have dropped out due to dittography or the plural form might have been written defectively.

¹² tn The Hebrew text does not include the expression “these requests,” but it is implied.

¹³ tn Heb “the animal.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “much.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “nobles”; NCV “important men.”

²⁰ tn Heb “the book of genealogy.”

²¹ tn Heb “in it”; the referent (the genealogical record) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²² tn Heb “like one man.”

²³ tn Heb “said [to].”

²⁵ tn Heb “from the light till the noon of the day.”

²⁶ tn Heb “all who could hear with understanding.” The word “children” is understood to be implied here by a number of English versions (e.g., NAB, TEV, NLT).

²⁷ tn Heb “the ears of all the people were toward.”

²⁸ tc The unexpected reference to Nehemiah here has led some scholars to suspect that the phrase “Nehemiah the governor” is a later addition to the text and not original.

²⁹ tn Heb “the priest, the scribe.”

³⁰ tn Heb “the people.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy.

³¹ tn Heb “if a man keep.” See note on the word “obey” in Neh 1:5.

³² tn Heb “they gave a stubborn shoulder.”

³³ tn Heb “they stiffened their neck.”

³⁴ tn Heb “the covenant and loyal love.” The expression is a hendiadys. The second noun retains its full nominal sense, while the first functions adjectivally: “the covenant and loyalty” = covenant fidelity.

³⁵ tn Heb “do not let it seem small in your sight.”

³⁷ tn Heb “from the peoples of the lands.” Cf. vv. 30, 31.

⁴⁰ tn Heb “a tithe of our land.”

⁴¹ tn Heb “of our work.”

⁴³ tn Heb “And the priest the son of Aaron.”

⁴⁶ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

⁴⁷ tn Heb “to the end of days.”