Nehemiah 4:4

4:4 Hear, O our God, for we are despised! Return their reproach on their own head! Reduce them to plunder in a land of exile!

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 12:23

12:23 The descendants of Levi were recorded in the Book of the Chronicles ³  as heads of families up to the days of Johanan son of Eliashib.

Nehemiah 13:2

13:2 for they had not met the Israelites with food ⁴  and water, but instead had hired Balaam to curse them. (Our God, however, turned the curse into blessing.)

[4:11]  ¹ tn Heb “said.”

[4:11]  ² tn Heb “see.”

[12:23]  ¹ tn Or “the Book of the Annals” (so NRSV); NLT “The Book of History.”

[13:2]  ¹ tn Heb “bread.” The Hebrew term is generic here, however, referring to more than bread alone.