Nehemiah 4:11

4:11 Our adversaries also boasted, ¹  “Before they are aware or anticipate ²  anything, we will come in among them and kill them, and we will bring this work to a halt!”

Nehemiah 5:16

5:16 I gave myself to the work on this wall, without even purchasing ³  a field. All my associates were gathered there for the work.

Nehemiah 6:3

6:3 So I sent messengers to them saying, “I am engaged in ⁴  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 6:9

6:9 All of them were wanting ⁵  to scare us, supposing, “Their hands will grow slack from the work, and it won’t get done.”

So now, strengthen my hands! ⁶ 

Nehemiah 7:71

7:71 Some of the family leaders gave to the project treasury 20,000 gold drachmas and 2,200 silver minas.

Nehemiah 13:10

13:10 I also discovered that the grain offerings for the Levites had not been provided, and that as a result the Levites and the singers who performed this work had all gone off to their fields.

[4:11]  ¹ tn Heb “said.”

[4:11]  ² tn Heb “see.”

[5:16]  ³ tn Heb “we did not purchase.”

[6:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “[am] doing.”

[6:9]  ⁷ tn The participle has a desiderative nuance here, describing the desire of the subject and not necessarily the actual outcome. See also v. 14.

[6:9]  ⁸ tn The statement “So now, strengthen my hands” is frequently understood as an implied prayer, but is taken differently by NAB (“But instead, I now redoubled my efforts”).