Nehemiah 1:11

1:11 Please, ¹  O Lord, listen attentively ²  to the prayer of your servant and to the prayer of your servants who take pleasure in showing respect ³  to your name. Grant your servant success today and show compassion to me ⁴  in the presence of this man.”

Now ⁵  I was cupbearer for the king.

Nehemiah 2:18

2:18 Then I related to them how the good hand of my God was on me and what ⁶  the king had said to me. Then they replied, “Let’s begin rebuilding right away!” ⁷  So they readied themselves ⁸  for this good project.

Nehemiah 4:14

4:14 When I had made an inspection, ⁹  I stood up and said to the nobles, the officials, and the rest of the people, “Don’t be afraid of them. Remember the great and awesome Lord, ¹⁰  and fight on behalf of your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your families!” ¹¹ 

Nehemiah 7:5

7:5 My God placed it on my heart to gather the leaders, ¹²  the officials, and the ordinary people so they could be enrolled on the basis of genealogy. I found the genealogical records ¹³  of those who had formerly returned. Here is what I found written in that record: ¹⁴ 

Nehemiah 8:4

8:4 Ezra the scribe stood on a towering wooden platform ¹⁵  constructed for this purpose. Standing near him on his right were Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Masseiah. On his left were Pedaiah, Mishael, Malkijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam.

Nehemiah 8:15

8:15 and that they should make a proclamation and disseminate this message ¹⁶  in all their cities and in Jerusalem: ¹⁷  “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 8:18

8:18 Ezra ¹⁸  read in the book of the law of God day by day, from the first day to the last. ¹⁹  They observed the festival for seven days, and on the eighth day they held an assembly ²⁰  as was required. ²¹ 

Nehemiah 12:47

12:47 So in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah, all Israel was contributing the portions for the singers and gatekeepers, according to the daily need. ²²  They also set aside ²³  the portion for the Levites, and the Levites set aside the portion for the descendants of Aaron.

Nehemiah 13:13

13:13 I gave instructions ²⁴  that Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and a certain Levite named Pedaiah be put in charge of ²⁵  the storerooms, and that Hanan son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah, be their assistant, ²⁶  for they were regarded as trustworthy. It was then their responsibility to oversee the distribution to their colleagues. ²⁷ 

Nehemiah 13:18

13:18 Isn’t this the way your ancestors ²⁸  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!”

Nehemiah 13:22

13:22 Then I directed the Levites to purify themselves and come and guard the gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy.

For this please remember me, O my God, and have pity on me in keeping with your great love.

[1:11]  ¹ tn The interjection אָנָּא (’anna’) is an emphatic term of entreaty: “please!” (BDB 58 s.v.; HALOT 69-70 s.v.). This term is normally reserved for pleas for mercy from God in life-and-death situations (2 Kgs 20:3 = Isa 38:3; Pss 116:4; 118:25; Jonah 1:14; 4:2) and for forgiveness of heinous sins that would result or have resulted in severe judgment from God (Exod 32:31; Dan 9:4; Neh 1:5, 11).

[1:11]  ² tn Heb “let your ear be attentive.”

[1:11]  ³ tn Heb “fear.”

[1:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “grant compassion.” The words “to me” are supplied in the translation for the sake of smoothness and style in English.

[1:11]  ⁵ tn The vav (ו) on וַאֲנִי (va’ani, “Now, I”) introduces a disjunctive parenthetical clause that provides background information to the reader.

[2:18]  ⁶ tn Heb “the words of the king which he had spoken to me.”

[2:18]  ⁷ tn Heb “Arise! Let us rebuild!”

[2:18]  ⁸ tn Heb “strengthened their hands.”

[4:14]  ¹¹ tn Heb “And I saw.”

[4:14]  ¹² tn The Hebrew term translated “Lord” here is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).

[4:14]  ¹³ tn Heb “houses.”

[7:5]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “nobles”; NCV “important men.”

[7:5]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “the book of genealogy.”

[7:5]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “in it”; the referent (the genealogical record) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:4]  ²¹ tn Heb “a tower of wood.”

[8:15]  ²⁶ tn Heb “a voice.”

[8:15]  ²⁷ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[8:18]  ³¹ tn Heb “He”; the referent (Ezra) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:18]  ³² tn Heb “the last day.”

[8:18]  ³³ tn Heb “on the eighth day an assembly.” The words “they held” have been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[8:18]  ³⁴ tn Heb “according to the judgment.”

[12:47]  ³⁶ tn Heb “a thing of a day in its day.”

[12:47]  ³⁷ tn Heb “were sanctifying.”

[13:13]  ⁴¹ tc Probably one should read with the Lucianic Greek recension, the Syriac Peshitta, and the Vulgate וָאֲצַוֶּה (va’atsavveh, “and I commanded”) rather than the rare denominative verb וָאוֹצְרָה (va’otsÿrah, “and I appointed over the storeroom”) of the MT.

[13:13]  ⁴² tn Heb “be over”

[13:13]  ⁴³ tn Heb “on their hand.”

[13:13]  ⁴⁴ tn Heb “brothers.”

[13:18]  ⁴⁶ tn Heb “your fathers.”