Nehemiah 12:37

12:37 They went over the Fountain Gate and continued directly up the steps of the City of David on the ascent to the wall. They passed the house of David and continued on to the Water Gate toward the east.

Nehemiah 12:39

12:39 over the Ephraim Gate, the Jeshanah Gate, ¹  the Fish Gate, the Tower of Hananel, and the Tower of the Hundred, to the Sheep Gate. They stopped ²  at the Gate of the Guard.

Nehemiah 12:2

12:2 Amariah, Malluch, Hattush,

Nehemiah 1:1

A Prayer of Nehemiah

1:1 ³ These are the words of Nehemiah ⁴  son of Hacaliah:

It so happened that in the month of Kislev, in the twentieth year, ⁵  I was in Susa ⁶  the citadel.

¹ tn Or “the Old Gate” (so KJV, NASB, NCV, NRSV).

² tn Heb “they stood.”

³ sn In ancient Judaism Ezra and Nehemiah were regarded as a single book with dual authorship. According to the Talmud, “Ezra wrote his book” (b. Bava Batra 15a). The Gemara then asks and answers, “And who finished it? Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah.” Accordingly, the two are joined in the Leningrad Codex (ca. A.D. 1008), the manuscript upon which modern printed editions of the Hebrew Bible (e.g., BHK and BHS) are based.

⁴ sn The name Nehemiah in Hebrew (נְחֶמְיָה, nÿkhemyah) means “the LORD comforts.”

⁵ tn That is, the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes’ reign (cf. 2:1).

⁶ tn Heb “Shushan.”