Nehemiah 2:8

2:8 and a letter for Asaph the keeper of the king’s nature preserve, ¹  so that he will give me timber for beams for the gates of the fortress adjacent to the temple and for the city wall ²  and for the house to which I go.” So the king granted me these requests, ³  for the good hand of my God was on me.

Nehemiah 7:70

7:70 Some of the family leaders ⁴  contributed to the work. The governor contributed to the treasury 1,000 gold drachmas, ⁵  50 bowls, and 530 priestly garments.

Nehemiah 9:8

9:8 When you perceived that his heart was faithful toward you, you established a ⁶  covenant with him to give his descendants ⁷  the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, and the Girgashites. You have fulfilled your promise, ⁸  for you are righteous.

Nehemiah 9:15

9:15 You provided bread from heaven for them in their time of hunger, and you brought forth water from the rock for them in their time of thirst. You told them to enter in order to possess the land that you had sworn ⁹  to give them.

Nehemiah 9:27

9:27 Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who oppressed them. But in the time of their distress they called to you, and you heard from heaven. In your abundant compassion you provided them with deliverers to rescue them from ¹⁰  their adversaries.

Nehemiah 9:35

9:35 Even when they were in their kingdom and benefiting from your incredible ¹¹  goodness that you had lavished ¹²  on them in the spacious and fertile land you had set ¹³  before them, they did not serve you, nor did they turn from their evil practices.

¹ tn Or “forest.” So HALOT 963 s.v. פַּרְדֵּס 2.

² 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.

³ tn The Hebrew text does not include the expression “these requests,” but it is implied.

⁴ tn Heb “the heads of the fathers.”

⁵ tn Heb “darics” (also in vv. 71, 72).

⁷ tn Heb “the” (so NAB).

⁸ tn Heb “seed.”

⁹ tn Heb “your words.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “had lifted your hand.”

¹³ tn Heb “from the hand of” (so NASB, NIV); NAB “from the power of.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “great.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “given them.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “given.”