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 2:6

2:6 Then the king, with his consort ⁴  sitting beside him, replied, “How long would your trip take, and when would you return?” Since the king was amenable to dispatching me, ⁵  I gave him a time.

Nehemiah 2:13

2:13 I proceeded through the Valley Gate by night, in the direction of the Well of the Dragons ⁶  and the Dung Gate, ⁷  inspecting ⁸  the walls of Jerusalem that had been breached and its gates that had been destroyed by fire.

Nehemiah 2:17

2:17 Then I said to them, “You see the problem that we have: Jerusalem is desolate and its gates are burned. Come on! Let’s rebuild the wall of Jerusalem so that this reproach will not continue.”

Nehemiah 4:7

4:7 (4:1) ⁹  When Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites, and the people of Ashdod heard that the restoration of the walls of Jerusalem ¹⁰  had moved ahead and that the breaches had begun to be closed, they were very angry.

Nehemiah 4:15-16

4:15 It so happened that when our adversaries heard that we were aware of these matters, ¹¹  God frustrated their intentions. Then all of us returned to the wall, each to his own work. 4:16 From that day forward, half of my men were doing the work and half of them were taking up spears, ¹²  shields, bows, and body armor. Now the officers were behind all the people ¹³  of Judah

Nehemiah 5:14

5:14 From the day that I was appointed ¹⁴  governor ¹⁵  in the land of Judah, that is, from the twentieth year until the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes – twelve years in all – neither I nor my relatives ¹⁶  ate the food allotted to the governor. ¹⁷ 

Nehemiah 6:1

Opposition to the Rebuilding Efforts Continues

6:1 When Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall and no breach remained in it (even though up to that time I had not positioned doors in the gates),

Nehemiah 6:16

6:16 When all our enemies heard and all the nations who were around us saw ¹⁸  this, they were greatly disheartened. ¹⁹  They knew that this work had been accomplished with the help of our God.

Nehemiah 8:17

8:17 So all the assembly which had returned from the exile constructed temporary shelters and lived in them. The Israelites had not done so from the days of Joshua son of Nun until that day. Everyone experienced very great joy. ²⁰ 

Nehemiah 10:38

10:38 A priest of Aaron’s line ²¹  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.

Nehemiah 13:5-6

13:5 He made for himself a large storeroom where previously they had been keeping ²²  the grain offering, the incense, and the vessels, along with the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil as commanded for the Levites, the singers, the gate keepers, and the offering for the priests.

13:6 During all this time I was not in Jerusalem, ²³  for in the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes of Babylon, I had gone back to the king. After some time ²⁴  I had requested leave of the king,

Nehemiah 13:19

13:19 When the evening shadows ²⁵  began to fall on the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I ordered ²⁶  the doors to be closed. I further directed that they were not to be opened until after the Sabbath. I positioned ²⁷  some of my young men at the gates so that no load could enter on the Sabbath day.

Nehemiah 13:22

13:22 Then I directed the Levites to purify themselves and come and guard the gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy.

For this please remember me, O my God, and have pity on me in keeping with your great love.

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 Or “queen,” so most English versions (cf. HALOT 1415 s.v. שֵׁגַל); TEV “empress.”

⁵ tn Heb “It was good before the king and he sent me.”

⁷ tn Or “Well of the Serpents”; or “Well of the Jackals” (cf. ASV, NIV, NLT).

⁸ tn Or “Rubbish Gate” (so TEV); NASB “Refuse Gate”; NCV “Trash Gate”; CEV “Garbage Gate.”

⁹ tc For the MT reading שֹׂבֵר (sover, “inspecting”) the LXX erroneously has שֹׁבֵר (shover, “breaking”). However, further destruction of Jerusalem’s walls was obviously not a part of Nehemiah’s purpose.

¹⁰ sn Chapter 4 begins here in the Hebrew text (BHS). See the note at 4:1.

¹¹ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

¹³ tn Heb “it was known to us.”

¹⁶ tc The MT reads “and spears.” The conjunction should be deleted.

¹⁷ tn Heb “all the house.”

¹⁹ tc The BHS editors suggest reading צֻוֵּאתִי (tsuvve’ti, “and I was appointed”) rather than the reading of the MT, אֹתִי צִוָּה (tsivvah ’oti, “he appointed me”).

²⁰ tc The translation reads with one medieval Hebrew MS פֶּחָה (pekhah, “governor”) rather than פֶּחָם (pekham, “their governor”) of the MT. One would expect the form with pronominal suffix to have a tav (ת) before the suffix.

²¹ tn Heb “brothers.”

²² tn Heb “the food of the governor.” Cf. v. 18.

²² tc The MT understands the root here to be יָרֵא (yare’, “to fear”) rather than רָאָה (ra’ah, “to see”).

²³ tn Heb “they greatly fell [i.e., were cast down] in their own eyes.” Some scholars suggest emending the reading of the MT, וַיִּפְּלוּ (vayyipÿlu) to וַיִּפָּלֵא (vayyippale’, “it was very extraordinary in their eyes”).

²⁵ tn Heb “And there was very great joy.”

²⁸ tn Heb “And the priest the son of Aaron.”

³¹ tn Heb “giving.”

³⁴ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

³⁵ tn Heb “to the end of days.”

³⁷ tn Heb “the gates of Jerusalem grew dark.”

³⁸ tn Heb “said” (so also in v. 22).

³⁹ tn Heb “caused to stand.”