Nehemiah 1:5

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

Nehemiah 8:6

8:6 Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God, and all the people replied “Amen! Amen!” as they lifted their hands. Then they bowed down and worshiped the LORD with their faces to the ground.

Nehemiah 8:14

8:14 They discovered written in the law that the LORD had commanded through ³  Moses that the Israelites should live in temporary shelters during the festival of the seventh month,

Nehemiah 9:3-4

9:3 For one-fourth of the day they stood in their place and read from the book of the law of the LORD their God, and for another fourth they were confessing their sins ⁴  and worshiping the LORD their God. 9:4 Then the Levites – Jeshua, Binnui, ⁵  Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Kenani – stood on the steps and called out loudly ⁶  to the LORD their God.

Nehemiah 9:7

9:7 “You are the LORD God who chose Abram and brought him forth from Ur of the Chaldeans. You changed his name to Abraham.

Nehemiah 10:35

10:35 We also accept responsibility for ⁷  bringing the first fruits of our land and the first fruits of every fruit tree year by year to the temple of the LORD.

Nehemiah 8:1

8:1 all the people gathered together ⁸  in the plaza which was in front of the Water Gate. They asked ⁹  Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses which the LORD had commanded Israel.

Nehemiah 8:10

8:10 He said to them, “Go and eat delicacies and drink sweet drinks and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared. For this day is holy to our Lord. ¹⁰  Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.”

Nehemiah 9:5-6

9:5 The Levites – Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah – said, “Stand up and bless the LORD your God!”

“May you be blessed, O LORD our God, from age to age. ¹¹  May your glorious name ¹²  be blessed; may it be lifted up above all blessing and praise. 9:6 You alone are the LORD. You made the heavens, even the highest heavens, ¹³  along with all their multitude of stars, ¹⁴  the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You impart life to them all, and the multitudes of heaven worship you.

Nehemiah 10:29

10:29 hereby participate with their colleagues the town leaders ¹⁵  and enter into a curse and an oath ¹⁶  to adhere to ¹⁷  the law of God which was given through Moses the servant of God, and to obey ¹⁸  carefully all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, ¹⁹  along with his ordinances and his statutes.

Nehemiah 10:34

10:34 “We – the priests, the Levites, and the people – have cast lots concerning the wood offerings, to bring them to the temple of our God according to our families ²⁰  at the designated times year by year to burn on the altar of the LORD our God, as is written in the law.

Nehemiah 5:13

5:13 I also shook out my garment, ²¹  and I said, “In this way may God shake out from his house and his property every person who does not carry out ²²  this matter. In this way may he be shaken out and emptied!” All the assembly replied, “So be it!” and they praised the LORD. Then the people did as they had promised. ²³ 

[1:5]  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).

[1:5]  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.

[8:14]  ³ tn Heb “by the hand of.”

[9:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “confessing.” The words “their sins” are not present in the Hebrew text of v. 3, but are clearly implied here because they are explicitly stated in v. 2.

[9:4]  ⁷ tc Heb “Bani.” The translation reads “Binnui” (so also NAB) rather than the MT reading “Bani.” Otherwise there are two individuals with the same name in this verse. The name “Binnui” appears, for example, in Neh 10:10.

[9:4]  ⁸ tn Heb “in a great voice.”

[10:35]  ⁹ tn The words “we accept responsibility” are not included in the Hebrew text, but are inferred from v. 33 (so also in v. 37).

[8:1]  ¹¹ tn Heb “like one man.”

[8:1]  ¹² tn Heb “said [to].”

[8:10]  ¹³ tn The Hebrew term translated “Lord” here is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).

[9:5]  ¹⁵ tc The MT reads here only “from age to age,” without the preceding words “May you be blessed, O LORD our God” which are included in the present translation. But apparently something has dropped out of the text. This phrase occurs elsewhere in the OT as a description of the Lord (see Ps 41:13; 106:48), and it seems best to understand it here in that light. The LXX adds “And Ezra said” at the beginning of v. 6 as a transition: “And Ezra said, ‘You alone are the LORD.” Without this addition (which is not included by most modern English translations) the speakers of vv. 9:5b-10:1 continue to be the Levites of v. 5a.

[9:5]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “the name of your glory.”

[9:6]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “the heavens of the heavens.”

[9:6]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “all their host.”

[10:29]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “the nobles.”

[10:29]  ²⁰ tn The expression “a curse and an oath” may be a hendiadys, meaning “an oath with penalties.”

[10:29]  ²¹ tn Heb “to walk in.”

[10:29]  ²² tn Heb “keep.” See the note on the word “obey” in Neh 1:5.

[10:29]  ²³ tn The Hebrew term translated “Lord” here is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).

[10:34]  ²¹ tn Heb “the house of our fathers.”

[5:13]  ²³ tn Heb “my bosom.”

[5:13]  ²⁴ tn Heb “cause to stand.”

[5:13]  ²⁵ tn Heb “according to this word.”