Nehemiah 10:29

10:29 hereby participate with their colleagues the town leaders ¹  and enter into a curse and an oath ²  to adhere to ³  the law of God which was given through Moses the servant of God, and to obey ⁴  carefully all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, ⁵  along with his ordinances and his statutes.

Nehemiah 13:25

13:25 So I entered a complaint with them. I called down a curse on them, and I struck some of the men and pulled out their hair. I had them swear by God saying, “You will not marry off ⁶  your daughters to their sons, and you will not take any of their daughters as wives for your sons or for yourselves!

Nehemiah 13:2

13:2 for they had not met the Israelites with food ⁷  and water, but instead had hired Balaam to curse them. (Our God, however, turned the curse into blessing.)

Nehemiah 1:2-3

1:2 Hanani, who was one of my relatives, ⁸  along with some of the men from Judah, came to me, ⁹  and I asked them about the Jews who had escaped and had survived the exile, and about Jerusalem. ¹⁰ 

1:3 They said to me, “The remnant that remains from the exile there in the province are experiencing considerable ¹¹  adversity and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem lies breached, and its gates have been burned down!” ¹² 

Nehemiah 1:2

1:2 Hanani, who was one of my relatives, ¹³  along with some of the men from Judah, came to me, ¹⁴  and I asked them about the Jews who had escaped and had survived the exile, and about Jerusalem. ¹⁵ 

Nehemiah 6:1

Opposition to the Rebuilding Efforts Continues

6:1 When Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall and no breach remained in it (even though up to that time I had not positioned doors in the gates),

Nehemiah 6:1

Opposition to the Rebuilding Efforts Continues

6:1 When Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall and no breach remained in it (even though up to that time I had not positioned doors in the gates),

Nehemiah 1:1

A Prayer of Nehemiah

1:1 ¹⁶ These are the words of Nehemiah ¹⁷  son of Hacaliah:

It so happened that in the month of Kislev, in the twentieth year, ¹⁸  I was in Susa ¹⁹  the citadel.

Nehemiah 1:1

A Prayer of Nehemiah

1:1 ²⁰ These are the words of Nehemiah ²¹  son of Hacaliah:

It so happened that in the month of Kislev, in the twentieth year, ²²  I was in Susa ²³  the citadel.

Ezra 10:5

10:5 So Ezra got up and made the leading priests and Levites and all Israel take an oath to carry out this plan. ²⁴  And they all took a solemn oath.

Jeremiah 34:8-10

The Lord Threatens to Destroy Those Who Wronged Their Slaves

34:8 The Lord spoke to Jeremiah after King Zedekiah had made a covenant ²⁵  with all the people in Jerusalem ²⁶  to grant their slaves their freedom. 34:9 Everyone was supposed to free their male and female Hebrew slaves. No one was supposed to keep a fellow Judean enslaved. ²⁷  34:10 All the people and their leaders had agreed to this. They had agreed to free their male and female slaves and not keep them enslaved any longer. They originally complied with the covenant and freed them. ²⁸ 

Matthew 26:63

26:63 But Jesus was silent. The ²⁹  high priest said to him, “I charge you under oath by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, ³⁰  the Son of God.”

[10:29]  ¹ tn Heb “the nobles.”

[10:29]  ² tn The expression “a curse and an oath” may be a hendiadys, meaning “an oath with penalties.”

[10:29]  ³ tn Heb “to walk in.”

[10:29]  ⁴ tn Heb “keep.” See the note on the word “obey” in Neh 1:5.

[10:29]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew term translated “Lord” here is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).

[13:25]  ⁶ tn Heb “give.”

[13:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “bread.” The Hebrew term is generic here, however, referring to more than bread alone.

[1:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “brothers.”

[1:2]  ⁹ tn The Hebrew text does not include the words “to me”; these words were supplied in the translation for the sake of clarity.

[1:2]  ¹⁰ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[1:3]  ¹¹ tn Heb “great.”

[1:3]  ¹² 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.

[1:2]  ¹³ tn Heb “brothers.”

[1:2]  ¹⁴ tn The Hebrew text does not include the words “to me”; these words were supplied in the translation for the sake of clarity.

[1:2]  ¹⁵ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[1:1]  ¹⁶ 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]  ¹⁷ sn The name Nehemiah in Hebrew (נְחֶמְיָה, nÿkhemyah) means “the LORD comforts.”

[1:1]  ¹⁸ tn That is, the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes’ reign (cf. 2:1).

[1:1]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “Shushan.”

[1:1]  ²⁰ 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]  ²¹ sn The name Nehemiah in Hebrew (נְחֶמְיָה, nÿkhemyah) means “the LORD comforts.”

[1:1]  ²² tn That is, the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes’ reign (cf. 2:1).

[1:1]  ²³ tn Heb “Shushan.”

[10:5]  ²⁴ tn Heb “to do according to this plan.”

[34:8]  ²⁵ tn Usually translated “covenant.” See the study note on 11:2 for the rationale for the translation here.

[34:8]  ²⁶ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[34:9]  ²⁷ tn Heb “after King Zedekiah made a covenant…to proclaim liberty to them [the slaves mentioned in the next verse] so that each would send away free his male slave and his female slave, the Hebrew man and the Hebrew woman, so that a man would not hold them in bondage, namely a Judean, his brother [this latter phrase is explicative of “them” because it repeats the preposition in front of “them”].” The complex Hebrew syntax has been broken down into shorter English sentences but an attempt has been made to retain the proper subordinations.

[34:10]  ²⁸ tn Heb “And they complied, [that is] all the leaders and all the people who entered into the covenant that they would each let his male slave and his female slave go free so as not to hold them in bondage any longer; they complied and they let [them] go.” The verb “they complied” (Heb “they hearkened”) is repeated at the end after the lengthy description of the subject. This is characteristic of Hebrew style. The translation has resolved the complex sentence by making the relative clauses modifying the subject independent sentences describing the situational background before mentioning the main focus, “they had complied and let them go.”

[26:63]  ²⁹ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.

[26:63]  ³⁰ tn Or “Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”