Nehemiah 4:15-16

4:15 It so happened that when our adversaries heard that we were aware of these matters, ¹  God frustrated their intentions. Then all of us returned to the wall, each to his own work. 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 8:15

8:15 and that they should make a proclamation and disseminate this message ⁹  in all their cities and in Jerusalem: ¹⁰  “Go to the hill country and bring back olive branches and branches of wild olive trees, myrtle trees, date palms, and other leafy trees to construct temporary shelters, as it is written.”

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. ¹¹ 

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. ¹²  May your glorious name ¹³  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 ¹⁴  and grew fat. They enjoyed to the full your great goodness.

Nehemiah 10:29

10:29 hereby participate with their colleagues the town leaders ¹⁵  and enter into a curse and an oath ¹⁶  to adhere to ¹⁷  the law of God which was given through Moses the servant of God, and to obey ¹⁸  carefully all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, ¹⁹  along with his ordinances and his statutes.

Nehemiah 10:33

10:33 for the loaves of presentation and for the regular grain offerings and regular burnt offerings, for the Sabbaths, for the new moons, for the appointed meetings, for the holy offerings, for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the temple of our God.

Nehemiah 12:47

12:47 So in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah, all Israel was contributing the portions for the singers and gatekeepers, according to the daily need. ²⁰  They also set aside ²¹  the portion for the Levites, and the Levites set aside the portion for the descendants of Aaron.

Nehemiah 13:6

13:6 During all this time I was not in Jerusalem, ²²  for in the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes of Babylon, I had gone back to the king. After some time ²³  I had requested leave of the king,

Nehemiah 13:15

13:15 In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath, bringing in heaps of grain and loading them onto donkeys, along with wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads, and bringing them to Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I warned them on the day that they sold these provisions.

Nehemiah 13:18

13:18 Isn’t this the way your ancestors ²⁴  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 ²⁵  him king over all Israel. But the foreign wives made even him sin!

[4:15]  ¹ tn Heb “it was known to us.”

[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.”

[8:15]  ⁵ tn Heb “a voice.”

[8:15]  ⁶ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[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.”

[10:29]  ⁹ tn Heb “the nobles.”

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

[10:29]  ¹¹ tn Heb “to walk in.”

[10:29]  ¹² tn Heb “keep.” See the note on the word “obey” in Neh 1:5.

[10:29]  ¹³ tn The Hebrew term translated “Lord” here is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).

[12:47]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “a thing of a day in its day.”

[12:47]  ¹¹ tn Heb “were sanctifying.”

[13:6]  ¹¹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[13:6]  ¹² tn Heb “to the end of days.”

[13:18]  ¹² tn Heb “your fathers.”

[13:26]  ¹³ tn Heb “gave.”