Nehemiah 4:22-23

4:22 At that time I instructed ¹  the people, “Let every man and his coworker spend the night in Jerusalem and let them be guards for us by night and workers by day. 4:23 We did not change clothes ²  – not I, nor my relatives, nor my workers, nor the watchmen who were with me. Each had his weapon, even when getting a drink of water. ³ 

Nehemiah 5:17

5:17 There were 150 Jews and officials who dined with me routinely, ⁴  in addition to those who came to us from the nations ⁵  all around us.

Nehemiah 7:6

7:6 These are the people ⁶  of the province who returned ⁷  from the captivity of the exiles, whom King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had forced into exile. ⁸  They returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, each to his own city.

Nehemiah 12:24

12:24 And the leaders of the Levites were Hashabiah, Sherebiah, Jeshua son of Kadmiel, and their colleagues, who stood opposite them to offer praise and thanks, one contingent corresponding to the other, as specified by ⁹  David the man of God.

Nehemiah 12:36

12:36 and his colleagues – Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani – with musical instruments of ¹⁰  David the man of God. (Ezra the scribe led them.) ¹¹ 

Nehemiah 13:10

13:10 I also discovered that the grain offerings for the Levites had not been provided, and that as a result the Levites and the singers who performed this work had all gone off to their fields.

¹ tn Heb “said [to].”

² tn Heb “strip off our garments.”

³ tc Heb “a man, his weapon, the waters.” The MT, if in fact it is correct, is elliptical and difficult. Some scholars emend the MT reading הַמָּיִם (hammayim, “the waters”) to בִּמִנוֹ (bimino, “in his right hand”; cf. NAB, NRSV) or מִינוּ(י)הֵ (heminu, “they held on the right side”).

³ tn Heb “who were gathered around us at my table.”

⁴ tn Or “from the Gentiles.” The same Hebrew word can refer to “the Gentiles” or “the nations.” Cf. the phrase in 6:16.

⁴ tn Heb “the sons of”; KJV, ASV “the children of”; NAB “the inhabitants of.”

⁵ tn Heb “who were going up.”

⁶ tc One medieval Hebrew manuscript has “to Babylon.” Cf. Ezra 2:1.

⁵ tn Heb “in [accord with] the commandment of.”

⁶ tn Or “prescribed by” (NIV, NLT); TEV “of the kind played by.” The precise relationship of these musical instruments to David is not clear.

⁷ tn Heb “was before them.”