Nehemiah 11:16

11:16 Shabbethai and Jozabad, leaders ¹  of the Levites, were in charge of the external work for the temple of God;

Nehemiah 4:11

4:11 Our adversaries also boasted, ²  “Before they are aware or anticipate ³  anything, we will come in among them and kill them, and we will bring this work to a halt!”

Nehemiah 5:16

5:16 I gave myself to the work on this wall, without even purchasing ⁴  a field. All my associates were gathered there for the work.

Nehemiah 6:3

6:3 So I sent messengers to them saying, “I am engaged in ⁵  an important work, and I am unable to come down. Why should the work come to a halt when I leave it to come down to you?”

Nehemiah 6:9

6:9 All of them were wanting ⁶  to scare us, supposing, “Their hands will grow slack from the work, and it won’t get done.”

So now, strengthen my hands! ⁷ 

Nehemiah 7:71

7:71 Some of the family leaders gave to the project treasury 20,000 gold drachmas and 2,200 silver minas.

Nehemiah 13:10

13:10 I also discovered that the grain offerings for the Levites had not been provided, and that as a result the Levites and the singers who performed this work had all gone off to their fields.

Nehemiah 2:16

2:16 The officials did not know where I had gone or what I had been doing, for up to this point I had not told any of the Jews or the priests or the nobles or the officials or the rest of the workers.

Nehemiah 4:19

4:19 I said to the nobles, the officials, and the rest of the people, “The work is demanding ⁸  and extensive, and we are spread out on the wall, far removed from one another.

Nehemiah 6:16

6:16 When all our enemies heard and all the nations who were around us saw ⁹  this, they were greatly disheartened. ¹⁰  They knew that this work had been accomplished with the help of our God.

Nehemiah 11:12

11:12 and their colleagues ¹¹  who were carrying out work for the temple – 822; and Adaiah son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malkijah,

[11:16]  ¹ tn Heb “who were of the heads.”

[4:11]  ² tn Heb “said.”

[4:11]  ³ tn Heb “see.”

[5:16]  ³ tn Heb “we did not purchase.”

[6:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “[am] doing.”

[6:9]  ⁵ tn The participle has a desiderative nuance here, describing the desire of the subject and not necessarily the actual outcome. See also v. 14.

[6:9]  ⁶ tn The statement “So now, strengthen my hands” is frequently understood as an implied prayer, but is taken differently by NAB (“But instead, I now redoubled my efforts”).

[4:19]  ⁶ tn Heb “much.”

[6:16]  ⁷ tc The MT understands the root here to be יָרֵא (yare’, “to fear”) rather than רָאָה (ra’ah, “to see”).

[6:16]  ⁸ tn Heb “they greatly fell [i.e., were cast down] in their own eyes.” Some scholars suggest emending the reading of the MT, וַיִּפְּלוּ (vayyipÿlu) to וַיִּפָּלֵא (vayyippale’, “it was very extraordinary in their eyes”).

[11:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “brothers” (also in vv. 13, 14, 17, 19).