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 2:13

2:13 I proceeded through the Valley Gate by night, in the direction of the Well of the Dragons ²  and the Dung Gate, ³  inspecting ⁴  the walls of Jerusalem that had been breached and its gates that had been destroyed by fire.

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 2:20

2:20 I responded to them by saying, “The God of heaven will prosper us. We his servants will start the rebuilding. ⁵  But you have no just or ancient right in Jerusalem.” ⁶ 

Nehemiah 3:7

3:7 Adjacent to them worked Melatiah the Gibeonite and Jadon the Meronothite, who were men of Gibeon and Mizpah. These towns were under the jurisdiction ⁷  of the governor of Trans-Euphrates.

Nehemiah 4:7

4:7 (4:1) ⁸  When Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites, and the people of Ashdod heard that the restoration of the walls of Jerusalem ⁹  had moved ahead and that the breaches had begun to be closed, they were very angry.

Nehemiah 4:13

4:13 So I stationed people at the lower places behind the wall in the exposed places. ¹⁰  I stationed the people by families, with their swords, spears, and bows.

Nehemiah 6:3

6:3 So I sent messengers to them saying, “I am engaged in ¹¹  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 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 9:26

9:26 “Nonetheless they grew disobedient and rebelled against you; they disregarded your law. ¹²  They killed your prophets who had solemnly admonished them in order to cause them to return to you. They committed atrocious blasphemies.

Nehemiah 11:12

11:12 and their colleagues ¹³  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,

Nehemiah 13:6

13:6 During all this time I was not in Jerusalem, ¹⁴  for in the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes of Babylon, I had gone back to the king. After some time ¹⁵  I had requested leave of the king,

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

[2:13]  ² tn Or “Well of the Serpents”; or “Well of the Jackals” (cf. ASV, NIV, NLT).

[2:13]  ³ tn Or “Rubbish Gate” (so TEV); NASB “Refuse Gate”; NCV “Trash Gate”; CEV “Garbage Gate.”

[2:13]  ⁴ tc For the MT reading שֹׂבֵר (sover, “inspecting”) the LXX erroneously has שֹׁבֵר (shover, “breaking”). However, further destruction of Jerusalem’s walls was obviously not a part of Nehemiah’s purpose.

[2:20]  ³ tn Heb “will arise and build.” The idiom “arise and…” means to begin the action described by the second verb.

[2:20]  ⁴ tn Heb “portion or right or remembrance.” The expression is probably a hendiatris: The first two nouns retain their full nominal function, while the third noun functions adjectivally (“right or remembrance” = “ancient right”).

[3:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “to the seat.”

[4:7]  ⁵ sn Chapter 4 begins here in the Hebrew text (BHS). See the note at 4:1.

[4:7]  ⁶ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[4:13]  ⁶ tc The MT preserves the anomalous Kethib form צְחִחִיִּים (tsÿkhikhiyyim); the Qere reads צְחִיחִים (tsÿkhikhim) which is preferred (BDB 850 s.v. צָהִיחַ; HALOT 1018 s.v. *צָהִיחַ).

[6:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “[am] doing.”

[9:26]  ⁸ tn Heb “they cast your law behind their backs.”

[11:12]  ⁹ tn Heb “brothers” (also in vv. 13, 14, 17, 19).

[13:6]  ¹⁰ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[13:6]  ¹¹ tn Heb “to the end of days.”