Nehemia 1:5

1:5 Then I said, “Please, O LORD God of heaven, great and awesome God, who keeps his loving covenant ¹  with those who love him and obey ²  his commandments,

Nehemia 1:11

1:11 Please, ³  O Lord, listen attentively ⁴  to the prayer of your servant and to the prayer of your servants who take pleasure in showing respect ⁵  to your name. Grant your servant success today and show compassion to me ⁶  in the presence of this man.”

Now ⁷  I was cupbearer for the king.

Nehemia 3:27

3:27 After them the men of Tekoa worked on another section, from opposite the great protruding tower to the wall of Ophel.

Nehemia 4:16

4:16 From that day forward, half of my men were doing the work and half of them were taking up spears, ⁸  shields, bows, and body armor. Now the officers were behind all the people ⁹  of Judah

Nehemia 5:11

5:11 This very day return to them their fields, their vineyards, their olive trees, and their houses, along with the interest ¹⁰  that you are exacting from them on the money, the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil.”

Nehemia 5:14

5:14 From the day that I was appointed ¹¹  governor ¹²  in the land of Judah, that is, from the twentieth year until the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes – twelve years in all – neither I nor my relatives ¹³  ate the food allotted to the governor. ¹⁴ 

Nehemia 6:1

Opposition to the Rebuilding Efforts Continues

6:1 When Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall and no breach remained in it (even though up to that time I had not positioned doors in the gates),

Nehemia 7:6

7:6 These are the people ¹⁵  of the province who returned ¹⁶  from the captivity of the exiles, whom King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had forced into exile. ¹⁷  They returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, each to his own city.

Nehemia 7:61

7:61 These are the ones who came up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Kerub, Addon, and Immer (although they were unable to certify ¹⁸  their family connection ¹⁹  or their ancestry, ²⁰  as to whether they were really from Israel):

Nehemia 9:17

9:17 They refused to obey and did not recall your miracles that you had performed among them. Instead, they rebelled and appointed a leader to return to their bondage in Egypt. ²¹  But you are a God of forgiveness, merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and unfailing in your loyal love. ²²  You did not abandon them,

Nehemia 9:26

9:26 “Nonetheless they grew disobedient and rebelled against you; they disregarded your law. ²³  They killed your prophets who had solemnly admonished them in order to cause them to return to you. They committed atrocious blasphemies.

Nehemia 10:34

10:34 “We – the priests, the Levites, and the people – have cast lots concerning the wood offerings, to bring them to the temple of our God according to our families ²⁴  at the designated times year by year to burn on the altar of the LORD our God, as is written in the law.

Nehemia 10:38

10:38 A priest of Aaron’s line ²⁵  will be with the Levites when the Levites collect the tithes, and the Levites will bring up a tenth of the tithes to the temple of our God, to the storerooms of the treasury.

Nehemia 11:22

11:22 The overseer of the Levites in Jerusalem was Uzzi son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Mica. He was one of Asaph’s descendants who were the singers responsible for the service of the temple of God.

Nehemia 12:24

12:24 And the leaders of the Levites were Hashabiah, Sherebiah, Jeshua son of Kadmiel, and their colleagues, who stood opposite them to offer praise and thanks, one contingent corresponding to the other, as specified by ²⁶  David the man of God.

Nehemia 12:31

12:31 I brought the leaders of Judah up on top of the wall, and I appointed two large choirs to give thanks. One was to proceed ²⁷  on the top of the wall southward toward the Dung Gate.

Nehemia 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 ²⁸  him king over all Israel. But the foreign wives made even him sin!

[1:5]  ¹ tn Heb “the covenant and loyal love.” The phrase is a hendiadys: the first noun retains its full nominal sense, while the second noun functions adjectivally (“loyal love” = loving). Alternately, the first might function adjectivally and the second noun function as the noun: “covenant and loyal love” = covenant fidelity (see Neh 9:32).

[1:5]  ² tn Heb “keep.” The Hebrew verb שָׁמַר (shamar, “to observe; to keep”) is often used as an idiom that means “to obey” the commandments of God (e.g., Exod 20:6; Deut 5:16; 23:24; 29:8; Judg 2:22; 1 Kgs 2:43; 11:11; Ps 119:8, 17, 34; Jer 35:18; Ezek 17:14; Amos 2:4). See BDB 1036 s.v. 3.c.

[1:11]  ³ tn The interjection אָנָּא (’anna’) is an emphatic term of entreaty: “please!” (BDB 58 s.v.; HALOT 69-70 s.v.). This term is normally reserved for pleas for mercy from God in life-and-death situations (2 Kgs 20:3 = Isa 38:3; Pss 116:4; 118:25; Jonah 1:14; 4:2) and for forgiveness of heinous sins that would result or have resulted in severe judgment from God (Exod 32:31; Dan 9:4; Neh 1:5, 11).

[1:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “let your ear be attentive.”

[1:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “fear.”

[1:11]  ⁶ tn Heb “grant compassion.” The words “to me” are supplied in the translation for the sake of smoothness and style in English.

[1:11]  ⁷ tn The vav (ו) on וַאֲנִי (va’ani, “Now, I”) introduces a disjunctive parenthetical clause that provides background information to the reader.

[4:16]  ⁸ tc The MT reads “and spears.” The conjunction should be deleted.

[4:16]  ⁹ tn Heb “all the house.”

[5:11]  ¹⁰ tc The MT reads וּמְאַת (umÿ’at, “and the hundredth”) which is somewhat enigmatic. The BHS editors suggest emending to וּמַשַּׁאת (umasha’t, “and the debt”) which refers to the interest or collateral (pledge) seized by a creditor (Deut 24:10; Prov 22:26; see HALOT 641-42 s.v. מַשָּׁא). The term מַשַּׁאת (masha’t) is related to the noun מָשָּׁא (masha’, “debt”) in 5:7, 10.

[5:14]  ¹¹ tc The BHS editors suggest reading צֻוֵּאתִי (tsuvve’ti, “and I was appointed”) rather than the reading of the MT, אֹתִי צִוָּה (tsivvah ’oti, “he appointed me”).

[5:14]  ¹² tc The translation reads with one medieval Hebrew MS פֶּחָה (pekhah, “governor”) rather than פֶּחָם (pekham, “their governor”) of the MT. One would expect the form with pronominal suffix to have a tav (ת) before the suffix.

[5:14]  ¹³ tn Heb “brothers.”

[5:14]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “the food of the governor.” Cf. v. 18.

[7:6]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “the sons of”; KJV, ASV “the children of”; NAB “the inhabitants of.”

[7:6]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “who were going up.”

[7:6]  ¹⁷ tc One medieval Hebrew manuscript has “to Babylon.” Cf. Ezra 2:1.

[7:61]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “relate.”

[7:61]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “the house of their fathers.”

[7:61]  ²⁰ tn Heb “their seed.”

[9:17]  ²¹ tc The present translation follows a few medieval Hebrew MSS and the LXX in reading בְּמִצְרָיִם (bÿmitsrayim, “in Egypt”; so also NAB, NASB, NRSV, TEV, NLT) rather than the MT reading בְּמִרְיָם (bÿmiryam, “in their rebellion”).

[9:17]  ²² tc The translation follows the Qere reading חֶסֶד (khesed, “loyal love”) rather than the Kethib reading וְחֶסֶד (vÿkhesed, “and loyal love”) of the MT.

[9:26]  ²³ tn Heb “they cast your law behind their backs.”

[10:34]  ²⁴ tn Heb “the house of our fathers.”

[10:38]  ²⁵ tn Heb “And the priest the son of Aaron.”

[12:24]  ²⁶ tn Heb “in [accord with] the commandment of.”

[12:31]  ²⁷ tc The translation reads וְהָאַחַת הֹלֶכֶת (vÿha’akhat holekhet, “and one was proceeding”) rather than the MT reading וְתַהֲלֻכֹת (vÿtahalukhot, “and processions”).

[13:26]  ²⁸ tn Heb “gave.”