Nehemiah 1:3

1:3 They said to me, “The remnant that remains from the exile there in the province are experiencing considerable ¹  adversity and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem lies breached, and its gates have been burned down!” ² 

Nehemiah 2:12

2:12 I got up during the night, along with a few men who were with me. But I did not tell anyone what my God was putting on my heart to do for Jerusalem. There were no animals with me, except for the one ³  I was riding.

Nehemiah 2:20

2:20 I responded to them by saying, “The God of heaven will prosper us. We his servants will start the rebuilding. ⁴  But you have no just or ancient right in Jerusalem.” ⁵ 

Nehemiah 4:22

4:22 At that time I instructed ⁶  the people, “Let every man and his coworker spend the night in Jerusalem and let them be guards for us by night and workers by day.

Nehemiah 6:7

6:7 You have also established prophets to announce ⁷  in Jerusalem ⁸  on your behalf, ‘We have a king in Judah!’ Now the king is going to hear about these rumors. So come on! Let’s talk about this.” ⁹ 

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 11:3

11:3 These are the provincial leaders ¹³  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 11:22

11:22 The overseer of the Levites in Jerusalem was Uzzi son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Mica. He was one of Asaph’s descendants who were the singers responsible for the service of the temple of God.

Nehemiah 12:43

12:43 And on that day they offered great sacrifices and rejoiced, for God had given them great joy. The women and children also rejoiced. The rejoicing in Jerusalem could be heard from far away.

Nehemiah 13:6

13:6 During all this time I was not in Jerusalem, ¹⁴  for in the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes of Babylon, I had gone back to the king. After some time ¹⁵  I had requested leave of the king,

[1:3]  ¹ tn Heb “great.”

[1:3]  ² tn Heb “have been burned with fire” (so also in Neh 2:17). The expression “burned with fire” is redundant in contemporary English; the translation uses “burned down” for stylistic reasons.

[2:12]  ³ tn Heb “the animal.”

[2:20]  ⁵ tn Heb “will arise and build.” The idiom “arise and…” means to begin the action described by the second verb.

[2:20]  ⁶ tn Heb “portion or right or remembrance.” The expression is probably a hendiatris: The first two nouns retain their full nominal function, while the third noun functions adjectivally (“right or remembrance” = “ancient right”).

[4:22]  ⁷ tn Heb “said [to].”

[6:7]  ⁹ tn Heb “call.”

[6:7]  ¹⁰ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[6:7]  ¹¹ tn Heb “Let us consult together.”

[7:6]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the sons of”; KJV, ASV “the children of”; NAB “the inhabitants of.”

[7:6]  ¹² tn Heb “who were going up.”

[7:6]  ¹³ tc One medieval Hebrew manuscript has “to Babylon.” Cf. Ezra 2:1.

[11:3]  ¹³ tn Heb “the heads of the province.”

[13:6]  ¹⁵ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[13:6]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “to the end of days.”