Nehemiah 4:7

4:7 (4:1) ¹  When Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites, and the people of Ashdod heard that the restoration of the walls of Jerusalem ²  had moved ahead and that the breaches had begun to be closed, they were very angry.

Nehemiah 7:5

7:5 My God placed it on my heart to gather the leaders, ³  the officials, and the ordinary people so they could be enrolled on the basis of genealogy. I found the genealogical records ⁴  of those who had formerly returned. Here is what I found written in that record: ⁵ 

Nehemiah 10:38

10:38 A priest of Aaron’s line ⁶  will be with the Levites when the Levites collect the tithes, and the Levites will bring up a tenth of the tithes to the temple of our God, to the storerooms of the treasury.

¹ sn Chapter 4 begins here in the Hebrew text (BHS). See the note at 4:1.

² map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

³ tn Heb “nobles”; NCV “important men.”

⁴ tn Heb “the book of genealogy.”

⁵ tn Heb “in it”; the referent (the genealogical record) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵ tn Heb “And the priest the son of Aaron.”