Nehemiah 3:25

3:25 After him Palal son of Uzai worked ¹  opposite the buttress and the tower that protrudes from the upper palace ²  of the court of the guard. After him Pedaiah son of Parosh

Nehemiah 6:7

6:7 You have also established prophets to announce ³  in Jerusalem ⁴  on your behalf, ‘We have a king in Judah!’ Now the king is going to hear about these rumors. So come on! Let’s talk about this.” ⁵ 

Nehemiah 6:13

6:13 He had been hired to scare me so that I would do this and thereby sin. They would thus bring reproach on me and I ⁶  would be discredited. ⁷ 

Nehemiah 12:39

12:39 over the Ephraim Gate, the Jeshanah Gate, ⁸  the Fish Gate, the Tower of Hananel, and the Tower of the Hundred, to the Sheep Gate. They stopped ⁹  at the Gate of the Guard.

[3:25]  ¹ tc The MT lacks the phrase אַחֲרָיו הֶחֱזִיק (’akharayv hekheziq, “after him worked”). This phrase is used repeatedly in Neh 3:16-31 to introduce each worker and his location. It probably dropped out accidentally through haplography.

[3:25]  ² tn Heb “house of the king.”

[6:7]  ³ tn Heb “call.”

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

[6:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “Let us consult together.”

[6:13]  ⁵ tc The translation reads לִי (li, “to me”) rather than the MT reading לָהֶם (lahem, “to them”).

[6:13]  ⁶ tn Heb “would have a bad name.”

[12:39]  ⁷ tn Or “the Old Gate” (so KJV, NASB, NCV, NRSV).

[12:39]  ⁸ tn Heb “they stood.”