Nehemiah 3:20-21

3:20 After him Baruch son of Zabbai worked on another section, from the buttress to the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest. 3:21 After him Meremoth son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz, worked on another section from the door of Eliashib’s house to the end of it. ¹ 

Nehemiah 4:6

4:6 So we rebuilt the wall, and the entire wall was joined together up to half its height. ²  The people were enthusiastic in their work. ³ 

Nehemiah 4:11

4:11 Our adversaries also boasted, ⁴  “Before they are aware or anticipate ⁵  anything, we will come in among them and kill them, and we will bring this work to a halt!”

Nehemiah 7:65

7:65 The governor ⁶  instructed them not to eat any of the sacred food until there was a priest who could consult ⁷  the Urim and Thummim.

Nehemiah 8:2

8:2 So Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly which included men and women and all those able to understand what they heard. (This happened on the first day of the seventh month.)

Nehemiah 11:30

11:30 Zanoah, Adullam and their settlements, in Lachish and its fields, and in Azekah and its villages. So they were encamped from Beer Sheba to the Valley of Hinnom.

Nehemiah 12:23

12:23 The descendants of Levi were recorded in the Book of the Chronicles ⁸  as heads of families up to the days of Johanan son of Eliashib.

Nehemiah 12:37-38

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.

12:38 The second choir was proceeding ⁹  in the opposite direction. I followed them, along with half the people, on top of the wall, past the Tower of the Ovens to the Broad Wall,

¹ tn Heb “the house of Eliashib.” This has not been repeated in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹ tn Heb “up to its half.”

² tn Heb “the people had a heart to work.”

¹ tn Heb “said.”

² tn Heb “see.”

¹ tn The Hebrew term תִּרְשָׁתָא (tirshata’; KJV “Tirshatha”) is the official title of a Persian governor in Judea. In meaning it may be similar to “excellency” (cf. NAB). See further BDB 1077 s.v.; W. L. Holladay, Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon, 395; HALOT 1798 s.v.

² tn Heb “stood.”

¹ tn Or “the Book of the Annals” (so NRSV); NLT “The Book of History.”

¹ tc The translation reads הוֹלֶכֶת (holekhet, “was proceeding”) rather than the MT הַהוֹלֶכֶת (haholekhet, “the one proceeding”). The MT probably reflects dittography – accidental writing of ה (hey) twice instead of once.