Nehemiah 3:12

3:12 Shallum son of Hallohesh, head of a half-district of Jerusalem, worked on the section adjacent to him, assisted by his daughters. ¹ 

Nehemiah 12:8

12:8 And the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, who together with his colleagues ²  was in charge of the songs of thanksgiving.

Nehemiah 8:9

8:9 Then Nehemiah the governor, ³  Ezra the priestly scribe, ⁴  and the Levites who were imparting understanding to the people said to all of them, ⁵  “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 1:2

1:2 Hanani, who was one of my relatives, ⁶  along with some of the men from Judah, came to me, ⁷  and I asked them about the Jews who had escaped and had survived the exile, and about Jerusalem. ⁸ 

Nehemiah 3:14

3:14 Malkijah son of Recab, head of the district of Beth Hakkerem, worked on the Dung Gate. He rebuilt it and positioned its doors, its bolts, and its bars.

Nehemiah 6:13

6:13 He had been hired to scare me so that I would do this and thereby sin. They would thus bring reproach on me and I ⁹  would be discredited. ¹⁰ 

Nehemiah 7:2

7:2 I then put in charge over Jerusalem ¹¹  my brother Hanani and Hananiah ¹²  the chief of the citadel, for he was a faithful man and feared God more than many do.

Nehemiah 9:7

9:7 “You are the LORD God who chose Abram and brought him forth from Ur of the Chaldeans. You changed his name to Abraham.

Nehemiah 2:20

2:20 I responded to them by saying, “The God of heaven will prosper us. We his servants will start the rebuilding. ¹³  But you have no just or ancient right in Jerusalem.” ¹⁴ 

Nehemiah 3:15

3:15 Shallun son of Col-Hozeh, head of the district of Mizpah, worked on the Fountain Gate. He rebuilt it, put on its roof, and positioned its doors, its bolts, and its bars. In addition, he rebuilt the wall of the Pool of Siloam, ¹⁵  by the royal garden, as far as the steps that go down from the City of David.

Nehemiah 6:18

6:18 For many in Judah had sworn allegiance to him, ¹⁶  because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah son of Arah. His son Jonathan had married the daughter of Meshullam son of Berechiah.

Nehemiah 9:6

9:6 You alone are the LORD. You made the heavens, even the highest heavens, ¹⁷  along with all their multitude of stars, ¹⁸  the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You impart life to them all, and the multitudes of heaven worship you.

¹ tc The reference to daughters, while not impossible, is odd in light of the cultural improbability that young women would participate in the strenuous labor of rebuilding city walls. All other such references in the Book of Nehemiah presuppose male laborers. Not surprisingly, some scholars suspect a textual problem. One medieval Hebrew MS and the Syriac Peshitta read וּבָנָיו (uvanayv, “and his sons”) rather than the MT reading וּבְנוֹתָיו (uvÿnotayv, “and his daughters”). Some scholars emend the MT to וּבֹנָיו (uvonayv, “and his builders”). On the other hand, the MT is clearly the more difficult reading, and so it is preferred.

² tn Heb “he and his brothers.”

³ 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.

⁴ tn Heb “the priest, the scribe.”

⁵ tn Heb “the people.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy.

⁴ tn Heb “brothers.”

⁵ tn The Hebrew text does not include the words “to me”; these words were supplied in the translation for the sake of clarity.

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⁵ tc The translation reads לִי (li, “to me”) rather than the MT reading לָהֶם (lahem, “to them”).

⁶ tn Heb “would have a bad name.”

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⁷ tn Some have suggested that “Hananiah” is another name for Hanani, Nehemiah’s brother, so that only one individual is mentioned here. However, the third person plural in v. 3 indicates two people are in view.

⁷ tn Heb “will arise and build.” The idiom “arise and…” means to begin the action described by the second verb.

⁸ tn Heb “portion or right or remembrance.” The expression is probably a hendiatris: The first two nouns retain their full nominal function, while the third noun functions adjectivally (“right or remembrance” = “ancient right”).

⁸ tn The Hebrew word translated “Siloam” is הַשֶּׁלַח (hashelakh, “water-channel”; cf. ASV, NASB, NRSV, TEV, CEV “Shelah”). It apparently refers to the Pool of Siloam whose water supply came from the Gihon Spring via Hezekiah’s Tunnel built in 701 B.C. (cf. Isa 8:6). See BDB 1019 s.v. שִׁלֹחַ; W. L. Holladay, Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon, 372. On the etymology of the word, which is a disputed matter, see HALOT 1517 s.v. III שֶׁלַח.

⁹ tn Heb “were lords of oath.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “the heavens of the heavens.”

¹¹ tn Heb “all their host.”