Nehemiah 1:1

A Prayer of Nehemiah

1:1 ¹ These are the words of Nehemiah ²  son of Hacaliah:

It so happened that in the month of Kislev, in the twentieth year, ³  I was in Susa ⁴  the citadel.

Nehemiah 2:10

2:10 When Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official ⁵  heard all this, they were very displeased that someone had come to seek benefit for the Israelites.

Nehemiah 3:14

3:14 Malkijah son of Recab, head of the district of Beth Hakkerem, worked on the Dung Gate. He rebuilt it and positioned its doors, its bolts, and its bars.

Nehemiah 3:17

3:17 After him the Levites worked – Rehum son of Bani and ⁶  after him Hashabiah, head of half the district of Keilah, for his district.

Nehemiah 3:19-20

3:19 Adjacent to him Ezer son of Jeshua, head of Mizpah, worked on another section, opposite the ascent to the armory at the buttress. 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.

Nehemiah 3:24

3:24 After him Binnui son of Henadad worked on another section, from the house of Azariah to the buttress and the corner.

Nehemiah 3:31

3:31 After him Malkijah, one of the goldsmiths, worked as far as the house of the temple servants and the traders, opposite the Inspection Gate, ⁷  and up to the room above the corner.

Nehemiah 7:6

7:6 These are the people ⁸  of the province who returned ⁹  from the captivity of the exiles, whom King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had forced into exile. ¹⁰  They returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, each to his own city.

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 ¹¹  were settled in their cities, ¹² 

Nehemiah 8:14

8:14 They discovered written in the law that the LORD had commanded through ¹³  Moses that the Israelites should live in temporary shelters during the festival of the seventh month,

Nehemiah 10:36

10:36 We also accept responsibility, as is written in the law, for bringing the firstborn of our sons and our cattle and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks to the temple of our God, to the priests who are ministering in the temple of our God.

Nehemiah 11:25

11:25 As for the settlements with their fields, some of the people of Judah settled in Kiriath Arba and its neighboring villages, ¹⁴  in Dibon and its villages, in Jekabzeel and its settlements,

Nehemiah 12:1

The Priests and the Levites Who Returned to Jerusalem

12:1 These are the priests and Levites who returned ¹⁵  with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,

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 ¹⁶  David the man of God.

Nehemiah 13:2

13:2 for they had not met the Israelites with food ¹⁷  and water, but instead had hired Balaam to curse them. (Our God, however, turned the curse into blessing.)

[1:1]  ¹ sn In ancient Judaism Ezra and Nehemiah were regarded as a single book with dual authorship. According to the Talmud, “Ezra wrote his book” (b. Bava Batra 15a). The Gemara then asks and answers, “And who finished it? Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah.” Accordingly, the two are joined in the Leningrad Codex (ca. A.D. 1008), the manuscript upon which modern printed editions of the Hebrew Bible (e.g., BHK and BHS) are based.

[1:1]  ² sn The name Nehemiah in Hebrew (נְחֶמְיָה, nÿkhemyah) means “the LORD comforts.”

[1:1]  ³ tn That is, the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes’ reign (cf. 2:1).

[1:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “Shushan.”

[2:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “servant” (so KJV, ASV; NAB “slave”; NCV “officer.” This phrase also occurs in v. 19.

[3:17]  ⁹ tc The translation reads וְעַל (vÿ’al, “and unto”) with several medieval Hebrew MSS and some MSS of LXX, rather than the MT reading עַל (’al, “unto”).

[3:31]  ¹³ tn Heb “Miphkad Gate” (so TEV; KJV similar); NRSV “Muster Gate.”

[7:6]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “the sons of”; KJV, ASV “the children of”; NAB “the inhabitants of.”

[7:6]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “who were going up.”

[7:6]  ¹⁹ tc One medieval Hebrew manuscript has “to Babylon.” Cf. Ezra 2:1.

[7:73]  ²¹ tn Heb “the sons of Israel.” So also in vv. 14, 17; 9:1.

[7:73]  ²² 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.

[8:14]  ²⁵ tn Heb “by the hand of.”

[11:25]  ²⁹ tn Heb “its daughters.” So also in vv. 27, 28, 30, and 31.

[12:1]  ³³ tn Heb “who went up.”

[12:24]  ³⁷ tn Heb “in [accord with] the commandment of.”

[13:2]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “bread.” The Hebrew term is generic here, however, referring to more than bread alone.