Nehemia 2:5

2:5 and said to the king, “If the king is so inclined ¹  and if your servant has found favor in your sight, dispatch me to Judah, to the city with the graves of my ancestors, so that I can rebuild it.”

Nehemia 2:7

2:7 I said to the king, “If the king is so inclined, let him give me letters for the governors of Trans-Euphrates ²  that will enable me to travel safely until I reach Judah,

Nehemia 4:3

4:3 Then Tobiah the Ammonite, who was close by, said, “If even a fox were to climb up on what they are building, it would break down their wall of stones!”

Nehemia 1:9

1:9 But if you repent ³  and obey ⁴  my commandments and do them, then even if your dispersed people are in the most remote location, ⁵  I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen for my name to reside.’

Nehemia 9:29

9:29 And you solemnly admonished them in order to return them to your law, but they behaved presumptuously and did not obey your commandments. They sinned against your ordinances – those by which an individual, if he obeys them, ⁶  will live. They boldly turned from you; ⁷  they rebelled ⁸  and did not obey.

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 1:8

1:8 Please recall the word you commanded your servant Moses: ‘If you act unfaithfully, I will scatter you among the nations. ¹² 

Nehemia 6:3

6:3 So I sent messengers to them saying, “I am engaged in ¹³  an important work, and I am unable to come down. Why should the work come to a halt when I leave it to come down to you?”

Nehemia 6:11

6:11 But I replied, “Should a man like me run away? Would someone like me flee to the temple in order to save his life? ¹⁴  I will not go!”

Nehemia 10:31

10:31 We will not buy ¹⁵  on the Sabbath or on a holy day from the neighboring peoples who bring their wares and all kinds of grain to sell on the Sabbath day. We will let the fields lie fallow every seventh year, and we will cancel every loan. ¹⁶ 

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 ¹⁷  him king over all Israel. But the foreign wives made even him sin!

[2:5]  ¹ tn Heb “If upon the king it is good.” So also in v. 7.

[2:7]  ² tn Heb “across the river,” here and often elsewhere in the Book of Nehemiah.

[1:9]  ³ tn Heb “turn to me.”

[1:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “keep.” See the note on the word “obey” in Neh 1:5.

[1:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “at the end of the heavens.”

[9:29]  ⁶ tn Heb “if a man keep.” See note on the word “obey” in Neh 1:5.

[9:29]  ⁷ tn Heb “they gave a stubborn shoulder.”

[9:29]  ⁸ tn Heb “they stiffened their neck.”

[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.

[1:8]  ¹² tn Heb “peoples.”

[6:3]  ¹³ tn Heb “[am] doing.”

[6:11]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “go into the temple and live.”

[10:31]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “take.”

[10:31]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “debt of every hand,” an idiom referring to the hand that holds legally binding contractual agreements.

[13:26]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “gave.”