Nehemiah 4:8

4:8 All of them conspired together to move with armed forces ¹  against Jerusalem and to create a disturbance in it.

Nehemiah 5:19

5:19 Please remember me for good, O my God, for all that I have done for this people.

Nehemiah 7:60

7:60 All the temple servants and the descendants of the servants of Solomon, 392.

Nehemiah 7:66

7:66 The entire group numbered 42,360,

Nehemiah 8:11

8:11 Then the Levites quieted all the people saying, “Be quiet, for this day is holy. Do not grieve.”

Nehemiah 9:2

9:2 Those truly of Israelite descent ²  separated from all the foreigners, ³  standing and confessing their sins and the iniquities of their ancestors. ⁴ 

Nehemiah 9:33

9:33 You are righteous with regard to all that has happened to us, for you have acted faithfully. ⁵  It is we who have been in the wrong!

Nehemiah 9:38

The People Pledge to be Faithful

9:38 (10:1) ⁶  “Because of all of this we are entering into a binding covenant ⁷  in written form; ⁸  our leaders, our Levites, and our priests have affixed their names ⁹  on the sealed document.”

Nehemiah 11:6

11:6 The sum total of the descendants of Perez who were settling in Jerusalem was 468 exceptional men.

Nehemiah 11:20

11:20 And the rest of the Israelites, with the priests and the Levites, were in all the cities of Judah, each on his own property.

Nehemiah 11:24

11:24 Pethahiah son of Meshezabel, one of the descendants of Zerah son of Judah, was an adviser to the king ¹⁰  in every matter pertaining to the people.

Nehemiah 13:8

13:8 I was very upset, and I threw all of Tobiah’s household possessions out of the storeroom.

Nehemiah 13:16

13:16 The people from Tyre ¹¹  who lived there were bringing fish and all kinds of merchandise and were selling it on the Sabbath to the people of Judah – and in Jerusalem, of all places! ¹² 

Nehemiah 13:20

13:20 The traders and sellers of all kinds of merchandise spent the night outside Jerusalem once or twice.

Nehemiah 13:30

13:30 So I purified them of everything foreign, and I assigned specific ¹³  duties to the priests and the Levites.

[4:8]  ¹ tn Heb “to fight.”

[9:2]  ² tn Heb “the seed of Israel.”

[9:2]  ³ tn Heb “sons of a foreigner.”

[9:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 9, 16, 23, 32, 34, 36).

[9:33]  ³ tn Heb “you have done truth.”

[9:38]  ⁴ sn Beginning with 9:38, the verse numbers through 10:39 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 9:38 ET = 10:1 HT, 10:1 ET = 10:2 HT, 10:2 ET = 10:3 HT, etc., through 10:39 ET = 10:40 HT. Beginning with 11:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.

[9:38]  ⁵ tn Heb “we are cutting.”

[9:38]  ⁶ tn Heb “and writing.”

[9:38]  ⁷ tn Heb “our leaders, our Levites, and our priests on the sealed document.” The Hebrew text is elliptical here; the words “have affixed their names” are supplied in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons. Cf. v. 2.

[11:24]  ⁵ tn Heb “to the hand of the king.”

[13:16]  ⁶ map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[13:16]  ⁷ tn The words “of all places” are not in the Hebrew text but have been supplied in the translation to indicate the emphasis on Jerusalem.

[13:30]  ⁷ tn Heb “a man in his work.”