Nehemiah 7:73

7:73 The priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the temple servants, and all the rest of Israel lived in their cities.

The People Respond to the Reading of the Law

When the seventh month arrived and the Israelites ¹  were settled in their cities, ² 

Nehemiah 11:18

11:18 The sum total of the Levites in the holy city was 284.

Nehemiah 7:4

7:4 Now the city was spread out ³  and large, and there were not a lot of people in it. ⁴  At that time houses had not been rebuilt.

Nehemiah 11:9

11:9 Joel son of Zicri was the officer in charge of them, and Judah son of Hassenuah was second-in-command over the city.

Nehemiah 11:20

11:20 And the rest of the Israelites, with the priests and the Levites, were in all the cities of Judah, each on his own property.

Nehemiah 11:1

The Population of Jerusalem

11:1 So the leaders of the people settled in Jerusalem, ⁵  while the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of every ten to settle in Jerusalem, the holy city, while the other nine ⁶  remained in other cities.

Nehemiah 11:3

11:3 These are the provincial leaders ⁷  who settled in Jerusalem. (While other Israelites, the priests, the Levites, the temple attendants, and the sons of the servants of Solomon settled in the cities of Judah, each on his own property in their cities,

Nehemiah 2:3

2:3 I replied to the king, “O king, live forever! Why would I not appear dejected when the city with the graves of my ancestors ⁸  lies desolate and its gates destroyed ⁹  by fire?”

Nehemiah 7:6

7:6 These are the people ¹⁰  of the province who returned ¹¹  from the captivity of the exiles, whom King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had forced into exile. ¹²  They returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, each to his own city.

Nehemiah 12:37

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.

Nehemiah 2:5

2:5 and said to the king, “If the king is so inclined ¹³  and if your servant has found favor in your sight, dispatch me to Judah, to the city with the graves of my ancestors, so that I can rebuild it.”

Nehemiah 2:8

2:8 and a letter for Asaph the keeper of the king’s nature preserve, ¹⁴  so that he will give me timber for beams for the gates of the fortress adjacent to the temple and for the city wall ¹⁵  and for the house to which I go.” So the king granted me these requests, ¹⁶  for the good hand of my God was on me.

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, ¹⁷  by the royal garden, as far as the steps that go down from the City of David.

Nehemiah 8:15

8:15 and that they should make a proclamation and disseminate this message ¹⁸  in all their cities and in Jerusalem: ¹⁹  “Go to the hill country and bring back olive branches and branches of wild olive trees, myrtle trees, date palms, and other leafy trees to construct temporary shelters, as it is written.”

Nehemiah 9:25

9:25 They captured fortified cities and fertile land. They took possession of houses full of all sorts of good things – wells previously dug, vineyards, olive trees, and fruit trees in abundance. They ate until they were full ²⁰  and grew fat. They enjoyed to the full your great goodness.

Nehemiah 10:37

10:37 We will also bring the first of our coarse meal, of our contributions, of the fruit of every tree, of new wine, and of olive oil to the priests at the storerooms of the temple of our God, along with a tenth of the produce ²¹  of our land to the Levites, for the Levites are the ones who collect the tithes in all the cities where we work. ²² 

Nehemiah 12:44

12:44 On that day men were appointed over the storerooms for the contributions, first fruits, and tithes, to gather into them from ²³  the fields of the cities the portions prescribed by the law for the priests and the Levites, for the people of Judah ²⁴  took delight in the priests and Levites who were ministering. ²⁵ 

Nehemiah 13:18

13:18 Isn’t this the way your ancestors ²⁶  acted, causing our God to bring on them and on this city all this misfortune? And now you are causing even more wrath on Israel, profaning the Sabbath like this!”

¹ tn Heb “the sons of Israel.” So also in vv. 14, 17; 9:1.

² tn The traditional understanding of the chapter and verse division here is probably incorrect. The final part of v. 73 is best understood as belonging with 8:1.

³ tn Heb “wide of two hands.”

⁴ tn Heb “the people were few in its midst.”

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⁶ tn Heb “nine of the hands.” The word “hand” is used here in the sense or a part or portion.

⁷ tn Heb “the heads of the province.”

⁹ tn Heb “fathers” (also in v. 5).

¹⁰ tn Heb “devoured” or “eaten” (so also in Neh 2:13).

¹¹ tn Heb “the sons of”; KJV, ASV “the children of”; NAB “the inhabitants of.”

¹² tn Heb “who were going up.”

¹³ tc One medieval Hebrew manuscript has “to Babylon.” Cf. Ezra 2:1.

¹³ tn Heb “If upon the king it is good.” So also in v. 7.

¹⁵ tn Or “forest.” So HALOT 963 s.v. פַּרְדֵּס 2.

¹⁶ 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.

¹⁷ tn The Hebrew text does not include the expression “these requests,” but it is implied.

¹⁷ 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.

¹⁹ tn Heb “a voice.”

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²¹ tn Heb “they ate and were sated.” This expression is a hendiadys. The first verb retains its full verbal sense, while the second functions adverbially: “they ate and were filled” = “they ate until they were full.”

²³ tn Heb “a tithe of our land.”

²⁴ tn Heb “of our work.”

²⁵ tc The translation reads מִשְּׂדֶי (missÿde, “from the fields”) rather than the MT reading לִשְׂדֵי (lisdey, “to the fields”).

²⁶ tn Heb “for Judah.” The words “the people of” have been supplied in the translation for clarity, since “Judah” is a proper name as well as a place name.

²⁷ tn Heb “standing.”

²⁷ tn Heb “your fathers.”