Nehemiah 1:9

1:9 But if you repent ¹  and obey ²  my commandments and do them, then even if your dispersed people are in the most remote location, ³  I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen for my name to reside.’

Nehemiah 2:8

2:8 and a letter for Asaph the keeper of the king’s nature preserve, ⁴  so that he will give me timber for beams for the gates of the fortress adjacent to the temple and for the city wall ⁵  and for the house to which I go.” So the king granted me these requests, ⁶  for the good hand of my God was on me.

Nehemiah 9:32

9:32 “So now, our God – the great, powerful, and awesome God, who keeps covenant fidelity ⁷  – do not regard as inconsequential ⁸  all the hardship that has befallen us – our kings, our leaders, our priests, our prophets, our ancestors, and all your people – from the days of the kings of Assyria until this very day!

Nehemiah 10:29

10:29 hereby participate with their colleagues the town leaders ⁹  and enter into a curse and an oath ¹⁰  to adhere to ¹¹  the law of God which was given through Moses the servant of God, and to obey ¹²  carefully all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, ¹³  along with his ordinances and his statutes.

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.

[1:9]  ¹ tn Heb “turn to me.”

[1:9]  ² tn Heb “keep.” See the note on the word “obey” in Neh 1:5.

[1:9]  ³ tn Heb “at the end of the heavens.”

[2:8]  ⁴ tn Or “forest.” So HALOT 963 s.v. פַּרְדֵּס 2.

[2:8]  ⁵ tc One medieval Hebrew MS, the Syriac Peshitta, Vulgate, and the Arabic read here the plural וּלְחוֹמוֹת (ulÿkhomot, “walls”) against the singular וּלְחוֹמַת (ulÿkhomat) in the MT. The plural holem vav (וֹ) might have dropped out due to dittography or the plural form might have been written defectively.

[2:8]  ⁶ tn The Hebrew text does not include the expression “these requests,” but it is implied.

[9:32]  ⁷ tn Heb “the covenant and loyal love.” The expression is a hendiadys. The second noun retains its full nominal sense, while the first functions adjectivally: “the covenant and loyalty” = covenant fidelity.

[9:32]  ⁸ tn Heb “do not let it seem small in your sight.”

[10:29]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the nobles.”

[10:29]  ¹¹ tn The expression “a curse and an oath” may be a hendiadys, meaning “an oath with penalties.”

[10:29]  ¹² tn Heb “to walk in.”

[10:29]  ¹³ tn Heb “keep.” See the note on the word “obey” in Neh 1:5.

[10:29]  ¹⁴ tn The Hebrew term translated “Lord” here is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).