Nehemiah 4:16

4:16 From that day forward, half of my men were doing the work and half of them were taking up spears, ¹  shields, bows, and body armor. Now the officers were behind all the people ²  of Judah

Nehemiah 8:3

8:3 So he read it before the plaza in front of the Water Gate from dawn till noon ³  before the men and women and those children who could understand. ⁴  All the people were eager to hear ⁵  the book of the law.

Nehemiah 8:17-18

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. ⁶  8:18 Ezra ⁷  read in the book of the law of God day by day, from the first day to the last. ⁸  They observed the festival for seven days, and on the eighth day they held an assembly ⁹  as was required. 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 11:1

The Population of Jerusalem

11:1 So the leaders of the people settled in Jerusalem, ¹³  while the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of every ten to settle in Jerusalem, the holy city, while the other nine ¹⁴  remained in other cities.

Nehemiah 13:6

13:6 During all this time I was not in Jerusalem, ¹⁵  for in the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes of Babylon, I had gone back to the king. After some time ¹⁶  I had requested leave of the king,

Nehemiah 13:13

13:13 I gave instructions ¹⁷  that Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and a certain Levite named Pedaiah be put in charge of ¹⁸  the storerooms, and that Hanan son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah, be their assistant, ¹⁹  for they were regarded as trustworthy. It was then their responsibility to oversee the distribution to their colleagues. ²⁰ 

Nehemiah 13:21

13:21 But I warned them and said, ²¹  “Why do you spend the night by the wall? If you repeat this, I will forcibly remove you!” ²²  From that time on they did not show up on the Sabbath. ²³ 

[4:16]  ¹ tc The MT reads “and spears.” The conjunction should be deleted.

[4:16]  ² tn Heb “all the house.”

[8:3]  ³ tn Heb “from the light till the noon of the day.”

[8:3]  ⁴ 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]  ⁵ tn Heb “the ears of all the people were toward.”

[8:17]  ⁵ tn Heb “And there was very great joy.”

[8:18]  ⁷ tn Heb “He”; the referent (Ezra) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:18]  ⁸ tn Heb “the last day.”

[8:18]  ⁹ tn Heb “on the eighth day an assembly.” The words “they held” have been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[8:18]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “according to the judgment.”

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

[11:1]  ¹¹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[11:1]  ¹² tn Heb “nine of the hands.” The word “hand” is used here in the sense or a part or portion.

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

[13:6]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “to the end of days.”

[13:13]  ¹⁵ tc Probably one should read with the Lucianic Greek recension, the Syriac Peshitta, and the Vulgate וָאֲצַוֶּה (va’atsavveh, “and I commanded”) rather than the rare denominative verb וָאוֹצְרָה (va’otsÿrah, “and I appointed over the storeroom”) of the MT.

[13:13]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “be over”

[13:13]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “on their hand.”

[13:13]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “brothers.”

[13:21]  ¹⁷ tn The Hebrew text includes the words “to them,” but they have been excluded from the translation for stylistic reasons.

[13:21]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “I will send a hand on you.”

[13:21]  ¹⁹ sn This statement contains a great deal of restrained humor. The author clearly takes pleasure in the effectiveness of the measures that he had enacted.