Nehemiah 2:10

2:10 When Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official ¹  heard all this, they were very displeased that someone had come to seek benefit for the Israelites.

Nehemiah 8:14

8:14 They discovered written in the law that the LORD had commanded through ²  Moses that the Israelites should live in temporary shelters during the festival of the seventh month,

Nehemiah 9:1

The People Acknowledge Their Sin before God

9:1 On the twenty-fourth day of this same month the Israelites assembled; they were fasting and wearing sackcloth, their heads covered with dust.

Nehemiah 11:25

11:25 As for the settlements with their fields, some of the people of Judah settled in Kiriath Arba and its neighboring villages, ³  in Dibon and its villages, in Jekabzeel and its settlements,

Nehemiah 13:2

13:2 for they had not met the Israelites with food ⁴  and water, but instead had hired Balaam to curse them. (Our God, however, turned the curse into blessing.)

Nehemiah 13:16

13:16 The people from Tyre ⁵  who lived there were bringing fish and all kinds of merchandise and were selling it on the Sabbath to the people of Judah – and in Jerusalem, of all places! ⁶ 

¹ tn Heb “servant” (so KJV, ASV; NAB “slave”; NCV “officer.” This phrase also occurs in v. 19.

² tn Heb “by the hand of.”

³ tn Heb “its daughters.” So also in vv. 27, 28, 30, and 31.

⁴ tn Heb “bread.” The Hebrew term is generic here, however, referring to more than bread alone.

⁵ map For location see Map1-A2; Map2-G2; Map4-A1; JP3-F3; JP4-F3.

⁶ tn The words “of all places” are not in the Hebrew text but have been supplied in the translation to indicate the emphasis on Jerusalem.