Nehemiah 3:15

3:15 Shallun son of Col-Hozeh, head of the district of Mizpah, worked on the Fountain Gate. He rebuilt it, put on its roof, and positioned its doors, its bolts, and its bars. In addition, he rebuilt the wall of the Pool of Siloam, ¹  by the royal garden, as far as the steps that go down from the City of David.

Nehemiah 4:16

4:16 From that day forward, half of my men were doing the work and half of them were taking up spears, ²  shields, bows, and body armor. Now the officers were behind all the people ³  of Judah

Nehemiah 8:1

8:1 all the people gathered together ⁴  in the plaza which was in front of the Water Gate. They asked ⁵  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 ⁶  before the men and women and those children who could understand. ⁷  All the people were eager to hear ⁸  the book of the law.

Nehemiah 8:9

8:9 Then Nehemiah the governor, ⁹  Ezra the priestly scribe, ¹⁰  and the Levites who were imparting understanding to the people said to all of them, ¹¹  “This day is holy to the LORD your God. Do not mourn or weep.” For all the people had been weeping when they heard the words of the law.

Nehemiah 8:17

8:17 So all the assembly which had returned from the exile constructed temporary shelters and lived in them. The Israelites had not done so from the days of Joshua son of Nun until that day. Everyone experienced very great joy. ¹² 

Nehemiah 9:5

9:5 The Levites – Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah – said, “Stand up and bless the LORD your God!”

“May you be blessed, O LORD our God, from age to age. ¹³  May your glorious name ¹⁴  be blessed; may it be lifted up above all blessing and praise.

Nehemiah 9:25

9:25 They captured fortified cities and fertile land. They took possession of houses full of all sorts of good things – wells previously dug, vineyards, olive trees, and fruit trees in abundance. They ate until they were full ¹⁵  and grew fat. They enjoyed to the full your great goodness.

Nehemiah 9:32

9:32 “So now, our God – the great, powerful, and awesome God, who keeps covenant fidelity ¹⁶  – do not regard as inconsequential ¹⁷  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 10:28-29

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 ¹⁸  because of the law of God, along with their wives, their sons, and their daughters, all of whom are able to understand – 10:29 hereby participate with their colleagues the town leaders ¹⁹  and enter into a curse and an oath ²⁰  to adhere to ²¹  the law of God which was given through Moses the servant of God, and to obey ²²  carefully all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, ²³  along with his ordinances and his statutes.

Nehemiah 10:31

10:31 We will not buy ²⁴  on the Sabbath or on a holy day from the neighboring peoples who bring their wares and all kinds of grain to sell on the Sabbath day. We will let the fields lie fallow every seventh year, and we will cancel every loan. ²⁵ 

Nehemiah 10:37

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 ²⁶  of our land to the Levites, for the Levites are the ones who collect the tithes in all the cities where we work. ²⁷ 

Nehemiah 13:18

13:18 Isn’t this the way your ancestors ²⁸  acted, causing our God to bring on them and on this city all this misfortune? And now you are causing even more wrath on Israel, profaning the Sabbath like this!”

Nehemiah 13:26

13:26 Was it not because of things like these that King Solomon of Israel sinned? Among the many nations there was no king like him. He was loved by his God, and God made ²⁹  him king over all Israel. But the foreign wives made even him sin!

[3:15]  ¹ tn The Hebrew word translated “Siloam” is הַשֶּׁלַח (hashelakh, “water-channel”; cf. ASV, NASB, NRSV, TEV, CEV “Shelah”). It apparently refers to the Pool of Siloam whose water supply came from the Gihon Spring via Hezekiah’s Tunnel built in 701 B.C. (cf. Isa 8:6). See BDB 1019 s.v. שִׁלֹחַ; W. L. Holladay, Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon, 372. On the etymology of the word, which is a disputed matter, see HALOT 1517 s.v. III שֶׁלַח.

[4:16]  ² tc The MT reads “and spears.” The conjunction should be deleted.

[4:16]  ³ tn Heb “all the house.”

[8:1]  ³ tn Heb “like one man.”

[8:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “said [to].”

[8:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “from the light till the noon of the day.”

[8:3]  ⁵ 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]  ⁶ tn Heb “the ears of all the people were toward.”

[8:9]  ⁵ tc The unexpected reference to Nehemiah here has led some scholars to suspect that the phrase “Nehemiah the governor” is a later addition to the text and not original.

[8:9]  ⁶ tn Heb “the priest, the scribe.”

[8:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “the people.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy.

[8:17]  ⁶ tn Heb “And there was very great joy.”

[9:5]  ⁷ tc The MT reads here only “from age to age,” without the preceding words “May you be blessed, O LORD our God” which are included in the present translation. But apparently something has dropped out of the text. This phrase occurs elsewhere in the OT as a description of the Lord (see Ps 41:13; 106:48), and it seems best to understand it here in that light. The LXX adds “And Ezra said” at the beginning of v. 6 as a transition: “And Ezra said, ‘You alone are the LORD.” Without this addition (which is not included by most modern English translations) the speakers of vv. 9:5b-10:1 continue to be the Levites of v. 5a.

[9:5]  ⁸ tn Heb “the name of your glory.”

[9:25]  ⁸ tn Heb “they ate and were sated.” This expression is a hendiadys. The first verb retains its full verbal sense, while the second functions adverbially: “they ate and were filled” = “they ate until they were full.”

[9:32]  ⁹ 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]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “do not let it seem small in your sight.”

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

[10:29]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the nobles.”

[10:29]  ¹² tn The expression “a curse and an oath” may be a hendiadys, meaning “an oath with penalties.”

[10:29]  ¹³ tn Heb “to walk in.”

[10:29]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “keep.” See the note on the word “obey” in Neh 1:5.

[10:29]  ¹⁵ tn The Hebrew term translated “Lord” here is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).

[10:31]  ¹² tn Heb “take.”

[10:31]  ¹³ tn Heb “debt of every hand,” an idiom referring to the hand that holds legally binding contractual agreements.

[10:37]  ¹³ tn Heb “a tithe of our land.”

[10:37]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “of our work.”

[13:18]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “your fathers.”

[13:26]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “gave.”