Nehemiah 3:2-3

3:2 The men of Jericho ¹  built adjacent to it, and Zaccur son of Imri built adjacent to them. ² 

3:3 The sons of Hassenaah rebuilt the Fish Gate. They laid its beams and positioned its doors, its bolts, and its bars.

Nehemiah 3:9

3:9 Rephaiah son of Hur, head of a half-district of Jerusalem, worked on the section adjacent to them.

Nehemiah 3:12

3:12 Shallum son of Hallohesh, head of a half-district of Jerusalem, worked on the section adjacent to him, assisted by his daughters. ³ 

Nehemiah 3:18

3:18 After him their relatives ⁴  worked – Binnui ⁵  son of Henadad, head of a half-district of Keilah.

Nehemiah 5:2

5:2 There were those who said, “With our sons and daughters, we are many. We must obtain ⁶  grain in order to eat and stay alive.”

Nehemiah 7:39

7:39 The priests:

the descendants of Jedaiah (through the family ⁷  of Jeshua), 973;

Nehemiah 7:60

7:60 All the temple servants and the descendants of the servants of Solomon, 392.

Nehemiah 9:1-2

The People Acknowledge Their Sin before God

9:1 On the twenty-fourth day of this same month the Israelites assembled; they were fasting and wearing sackcloth, their heads covered with dust. 9:2 Those truly of Israelite descent ⁸  separated from all the foreigners, ⁹  standing and confessing their sins and the iniquities of their ancestors. ¹⁰ 

Nehemiah 9:23

9:23 You multiplied their descendants like the stars of the sky. You brought them to the land you had told their ancestors to enter in order to possess.

Nehemiah 10:30

10:30 “We will not give our daughters in marriage to the neighboring peoples, and we will not take their daughters in marriage for our sons.

Nehemiah 11:6

11:6 The sum total of the descendants of Perez who were settling in Jerusalem was 468 exceptional men.

Nehemiah 11:14

11:14 and his colleagues ¹¹  who were exceptional men – 128. The officer over them was Zabdiel the son of Haggedolim.

Nehemiah 12:28

12:28 The singers ¹²  were also assembled from the district around Jerusalem and from the settlements of the Netophathites

Nehemiah 12:45

12:45 They performed the service of their God and the service of purification, along with the singers and gatekeepers, according to the commandment of David and ¹³  his son Solomon.

Nehemiah 13:16

13:16 The people from Tyre ¹⁴  who lived there were bringing fish and all kinds of merchandise and were selling it on the Sabbath to the people of Judah – and in Jerusalem, of all places! ¹⁵ 

Nehemiah 13:24

13:24 Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod (or the language of one of the other peoples mentioned ¹⁶ ) and were unable to speak the language of Judah.

[3:2]  ¹ map For the location of Jericho see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[3:2]  ² tn Heb “it.”

[3:12]  ³ tc The reference to daughters, while not impossible, is odd in light of the cultural improbability that young women would participate in the strenuous labor of rebuilding city walls. All other such references in the Book of Nehemiah presuppose male laborers. Not surprisingly, some scholars suspect a textual problem. One medieval Hebrew MS and the Syriac Peshitta read וּבָנָיו (uvanayv, “and his sons”) rather than the MT reading וּבְנוֹתָיו (uvÿnotayv, “and his daughters”). Some scholars emend the MT to וּבֹנָיו (uvonayv, “and his builders”). On the other hand, the MT is clearly the more difficult reading, and so it is preferred.

[3:18]  ⁵ tn Heb “brothers.”

[3:18]  ⁶ tc The translation reads with a few medieval Hebrew MSS and the Syriac Peshitta בִּנֻּי (binnuy) rather than the MT reading בַּוַּי (bavvay).

[5:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “take” (so also in v. 3).

[7:39]  ⁹ tn Heb “to the house of.”

[9:2]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the seed of Israel.”

[9:2]  ¹² tn Heb “sons of a foreigner.”

[9:2]  ¹³ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 9, 16, 23, 32, 34, 36).

[11:14]  ¹³ tc The translation reads with the LXX וְאֶחָיו (vÿ’ekhayv, “and his brothers”) rather than the MT reading וַאֲחֵיהֶם (va’akhehem, “and their brothers”).

[12:28]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “the sons of the singers.”

[12:45]  ¹⁷ tc With many medieval Hebrew MSS and the ancient versions the translation reads the conjunction (“and”). It is absent in the Leningrad MS that forms the textual basis for BHS.

[13:16]  ¹⁹ map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[13:16]  ²⁰ tn The words “of all places” are not in the Hebrew text but have been supplied in the translation to indicate the emphasis on Jerusalem.

[13:24]  ²¹ tn Heb “people and people.”