Nehemiah 4:14

4:14 When I had made an inspection, ¹  I stood up and said to the nobles, the officials, and the rest of the people, “Don’t be afraid of them. Remember the great and awesome Lord, ²  and fight on behalf of your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your families!” ³ 

Nehemiah 6:6

6:6 Written in it were the following words:

“Among the nations it is rumored ⁴  (and Geshem ⁵  has substantiated ⁶  this) that you and the Jews have intentions of revolting, and for this reason you are building the wall. Furthermore, according to these rumors ⁷  you are going to become their king.

Nehemiah 7:5

7:5 My God placed it on my heart to gather the leaders, ⁸  the officials, and the ordinary people so they could be enrolled on the basis of genealogy. I found the genealogical records ⁹  of those who had formerly returned. Here is what I found written in that record: ¹⁰ 

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. ¹¹  May your glorious name ¹²  be blessed; may it be lifted up above all blessing and praise.

Nehemiah 9:27

9:27 Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who oppressed them. But in the time of their distress they called to you, and you heard from heaven. In your abundant compassion you provided them with deliverers to rescue them from ¹³  their adversaries.

Nehemiah 11:4

11:4 some of the descendants of Judah and some of the descendants of Benjamin settled in Jerusalem.)

Of the descendants of Judah:

Athaiah son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalalel, from the descendants of Perez;

[4:14]  ¹ tn Heb “And I saw.”

[4:14]  ² tn The Hebrew term translated “Lord” here is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).

[4:14]  ³ tn Heb “houses.”

[6:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “heard.”

[6:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “Gashmu”; in Neh 2:19 this name appears as Geshem. Since it is important for the modern reader to recognize that this is the same individual, the form of the name used here in the translation is the same as that in v. 19.

[6:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “is saying.”

[6:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “words.” So also in v. 7.

[7:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “nobles”; NCV “important men.”

[7:5]  ⁸ tn Heb “the book of genealogy.”

[7:5]  ⁹ tn Heb “in it”; the referent (the genealogical record) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[9:5]  ¹⁰ 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]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the name of your glory.”

[9:27]  ¹³ tn Heb “from the hand of” (so NASB, NIV); NAB “from the power of.”