Nehemiah 2:7

2:7 I said to the king, “If the king is so inclined, let him give me letters for the governors of Trans-Euphrates ¹  that will enable me to travel safely until I reach Judah,

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 ²  I was riding.

Nehemiah 2:17

2:17 Then I said to them, “You see the problem that we have: Jerusalem is desolate and its gates are burned. Come on! Let’s rebuild the wall of Jerusalem so that this reproach will not continue.”

Nehemiah 7:5

7:5 My God placed it on my heart to gather the leaders, ³  the officials, and the ordinary people so they could be enrolled on the basis of genealogy. I found the genealogical records ⁴  of those who had formerly returned. Here is what I found written in that record: ⁵ 

Nehemiah 8:1

8:1 all the people gathered together ⁶  in the plaza which was in front of the Water Gate. They asked ⁷  Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses which the LORD had commanded Israel.

Nehemiah 8:3

8:3 So he read it before the plaza in front of the Water Gate from dawn till noon ⁸  before the men and women and those children who could understand. ⁹  All the people were eager to hear ¹⁰  the book of the law.

Nehemiah 9:26-27

9:26 “Nonetheless they grew disobedient and rebelled against you; they disregarded your law. ¹¹  They killed your prophets who had solemnly admonished them in order to cause them to return to you. They committed atrocious blasphemies. 9:27 Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who oppressed them. But in the time of their distress they called to you, and you heard from heaven. In your abundant compassion you provided them with deliverers to rescue them from ¹²  their adversaries.

Nehemiah 9:29

9:29 And you solemnly admonished them in order to return them to your law, but they behaved presumptuously and did not obey your commandments. They sinned against your ordinances – those by which an individual, if he obeys them, ¹³  will live. They boldly turned from you; ¹⁴  they rebelled ¹⁵  and did not obey.

Nehemiah 10:28

10:28 “Now the rest of the people – the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple attendants, and all those who have separated themselves from the neighboring peoples ¹⁶  because of the law of God, along with their wives, their sons, and their daughters, all of whom are able to understand –

Nehemiah 10:37-39

10:37 We will also bring the first of our coarse meal, of our contributions, of the fruit of every tree, of new wine, and of olive oil to the priests at the storerooms of the temple of our God, along with a tenth of the produce ¹⁷  of our land to the Levites, for the Levites are the ones who collect the tithes in all the cities where we work. ¹⁸  10:38 A priest of Aaron’s line ¹⁹  will be with the Levites when the Levites collect the tithes, and the Levites will bring up a tenth of the tithes to the temple of our God, to the storerooms of the treasury. 10:39 The Israelites and the Levites will bring the contribution of the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil to the storerooms where the utensils of the sanctuary are kept, and where the priests who minister stay, along with the gatekeepers and the singers. We will not neglect the temple of our God.”

Nehemiah 13:6

13:6 During all this time I was not in Jerusalem, ²⁰  for in the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes of Babylon, I had gone back to the king. After some time ²¹  I had requested leave of the king,

Nehemiah 13:21

13:21 But I warned them and said, ²²  “Why do you spend the night by the wall? If you repeat this, I will forcibly remove you!” ²³  From that time on they did not show up on the Sabbath. ²⁴ 

[2:7]  ¹ tn Heb “across the river,” here and often elsewhere in the Book of Nehemiah.

[2:12]  ² tn Heb “the animal.”

[7:5]  ³ tn Heb “nobles”; NCV “important men.”

[7:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “the book of genealogy.”

[7:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “in it”; the referent (the genealogical record) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “like one man.”

[8:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “said [to].”

[8:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “from the light till the noon of the day.”

[8:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “all who could hear with understanding.” The word “children” is understood to be implied here by a number of English versions (e.g., NAB, TEV, NLT).

[8:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “the ears of all the people were toward.”

[9:26]  ⁶ tn Heb “they cast your law behind their backs.”

[9:27]  ⁷ tn Heb “from the hand of” (so NASB, NIV); NAB “from the power of.”

[9:29]  ⁸ tn Heb “if a man keep.” See note on the word “obey” in Neh 1:5.

[9:29]  ⁹ tn Heb “they gave a stubborn shoulder.”

[9:29]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “they stiffened their neck.”

[10:28]  ⁹ tn Heb “from the peoples of the lands.” Cf. vv. 30, 31.

[10:37]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “a tithe of our land.”

[10:37]  ¹¹ tn Heb “of our work.”

[10:38]  ¹¹ tn Heb “And the priest the son of Aaron.”

[13:6]  ¹² map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

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

[13:21]  ¹³ tn The Hebrew text includes the words “to them,” but they have been excluded from the translation for stylistic reasons.

[13:21]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “I will send a hand on you.”

[13:21]  ¹⁵ sn This statement contains a great deal of restrained humor. The author clearly takes pleasure in the effectiveness of the measures that he had enacted.