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 7:73

7:73 The priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the temple servants, and all the rest of Israel lived in their cities.

The People Respond to the Reading of the Law

When the seventh month arrived and the Israelites ¹  were settled in their cities, ² 

Nehemia 9:35

9:35 Even when they were in their kingdom and benefiting from your incredible ³  goodness that you had lavished ⁴  on them in the spacious and fertile land you had set ⁵  before them, they did not serve you, nor did they turn from their evil practices.

Nehemia 10:38

10:38 A priest of Aaron’s line ⁶  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 11:3

11:3 These are the provincial leaders ⁷  who settled in Jerusalem. (While other Israelites, the priests, the Levites, the temple attendants, and the sons of the servants of Solomon settled in the cities of Judah, each on his own property in their cities,

Nehemia 13:18

13:18 Isn’t this the way your ancestors ⁸  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!”

Nehemia 13:21

13:21 But I warned them and said, ⁹  “Why do you spend the night by the wall? If you repeat this, I will forcibly remove you!” ¹⁰  From that time on they did not show up on the Sabbath. ¹¹ 

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 ¹²  him king over all Israel. But the foreign wives made even him sin!

[7:73]  ¹ tn Heb “the sons of Israel.” So also in vv. 14, 17; 9:1.

[7:73]  ² tn The traditional understanding of the chapter and verse division here is probably incorrect. The final part of v. 73 is best understood as belonging with 8:1.

[9:35]  ³ tn Heb “great.”

[9:35]  ⁴ tn Heb “given them.”

[9:35]  ⁵ tn Heb “given.”

[10:38]  ⁶ tn Heb “And the priest the son of Aaron.”

[11:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “the heads of the province.”

[13:18]  ⁸ tn Heb “your fathers.”

[13:21]  ⁹ tn The Hebrew text includes the words “to them,” but they have been excluded from the translation for stylistic reasons.

[13:21]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “I will send a hand on you.”

[13:21]  ¹¹ 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.

[13:26]  ¹² tn Heb “gave.”