Nehemiah 9:13-14

9:13 “You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You provided them with just judgments, true laws, and good statutes and commandments. 9:14 You made known to them your holy Sabbath; you issued commandments, statutes, and law to them through ¹  Moses your servant.

Nehemiah 1:7

1:7 We have behaved corruptly against you, not obeying the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments that you commanded your servant Moses.

Nehemiah 1:5

1:5 Then I said, “Please, O LORD God of heaven, great and awesome God, who keeps his loving covenant ²  with those who love him and obey ³  his commandments,

Nehemiah 12:45

12:45 They performed the service of their God and the service of purification, along with the singers and gatekeepers, according to the commandment of David and ⁴  his son Solomon.

Nehemiah 10:29

10:29 hereby participate with their colleagues the town leaders ⁵  and enter into a curse and an oath ⁶  to adhere to ⁷  the law of God which was given through Moses the servant of God, and to obey ⁸  carefully all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, ⁹  along with his ordinances and his statutes.

¹ tn Heb “by the hand of.”

¹ tn Heb “the covenant and loyal love.” The phrase is a hendiadys: the first noun retains its full nominal sense, while the second noun functions adjectivally (“loyal love” = loving). Alternately, the first might function adjectivally and the second noun function as the noun: “covenant and loyal love” = covenant fidelity (see Neh 9:32).

² tn Heb “keep.” The Hebrew verb שָׁמַר (shamar, “to observe; to keep”) is often used as an idiom that means “to obey” the commandments of God (e.g., Exod 20:6; Deut 5:16; 23:24; 29:8; Judg 2:22; 1 Kgs 2:43; 11:11; Ps 119:8, 17, 34; Jer 35:18; Ezek 17:14; Amos 2:4). See BDB 1036 s.v. 3.c.

¹ tc With many medieval Hebrew MSS and the ancient versions the translation reads the conjunction (“and”). It is absent in the Leningrad MS that forms the textual basis for BHS.

¹ tn Heb “the nobles.”

² tn The expression “a curse and an oath” may be a hendiadys, meaning “an oath with penalties.”

³ tn Heb “to walk in.”

⁴ tn Heb “keep.” See the note on the word “obey” in Neh 1:5.

⁵ tn The Hebrew term translated “Lord” here is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).