Nehemia 1:3

1:3 They said to me, “The remnant that remains from the exile there in the province are experiencing considerable ¹  adversity and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem lies breached, and its gates have been burned down!” ² 

Nehemia 5:18

5:18 Every day one ox, six select sheep, and some birds were prepared for me, and every ten days all kinds of wine in abundance. Despite all this I did not require the food allotted to the governor, for the work was demanding on this people.

Nehemia 7:6

7:6 These are the people ³  of the province who returned ⁴  from the captivity of the exiles, whom King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had forced into exile. ⁵  They returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, each to his own city.

Nehemia 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. ⁶  May your glorious name ⁷  be blessed; may it be lifted up above all blessing and praise.

Nehemia 9:35

9:35 Even when they were in their kingdom and benefiting from your incredible ⁸  goodness that you had lavished ⁹  on them in the spacious and fertile land you had set ¹⁰  before them, they did not serve you, nor did they turn from their evil practices.

[1:3]  ¹ tn Heb “great.”

[1:3]  ² tn Heb “have been burned with fire” (so also in Neh 2:17). The expression “burned with fire” is redundant in contemporary English; the translation uses “burned down” for stylistic reasons.

[7:6]  ³ tn Heb “the sons of”; KJV, ASV “the children of”; NAB “the inhabitants of.”

[7:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “who were going up.”

[7:6]  ⁵ tc One medieval Hebrew manuscript has “to Babylon.” Cf. Ezra 2:1.

[9:5]  ⁶ 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]  ⁷ tn Heb “the name of your glory.”

[9:35]  ⁸ tn Heb “great.”

[9:35]  ⁹ tn Heb “given them.”

[9:35]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “given.”