Nehemia 9:2

9:2 Those truly of Israelite descent ¹  separated from all the foreigners, ²  standing and confessing their sins and the iniquities of their ancestors. ³ 

Nehemia 6:13

6:13 He had been hired to scare me so that I would do this and thereby sin. They would thus bring reproach on me and I ⁴  would be discredited. ⁵ 

Nehemia 4:5

4:5 Do not cover their iniquity, and do not wipe out their sin from before them. For they have bitterly offended ⁶  the builders! ⁷ 

Nehemia 1:6

1:6 may your ear be attentive and your eyes be open to hear the prayer of your servant that I am praying to you today throughout both day and night on behalf of your servants the Israelites. I am confessing the sins of the Israelites that we have committed ⁸  against you – both I myself and my family ⁹  have sinned.

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 ¹⁰  him king over all Israel. But the foreign wives made even him sin!

Nehemia 9:37

9:37 Its abundant produce goes to the kings you have placed over us due to our sins. They rule over our bodies and our livestock as they see fit, ¹¹  and we are in great distress!

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, ¹²  will live. They boldly turned from you; ¹³  they rebelled ¹⁴  and did not obey.

Nehemia 10:33

10:33 for the loaves of presentation and for the regular grain offerings and regular burnt offerings, for the Sabbaths, for the new moons, for the appointed meetings, for the holy offerings, for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the temple of our God.

Nehemia 9:3

9:3 For one-fourth of the day they stood in their place and read from the book of the law of the LORD their God, and for another fourth they were confessing their sins ¹⁵  and worshiping the LORD their God.

Nehemia 9:1

The People Acknowledge Their Sin before God

9:1 On the twenty-fourth day of this same month the Israelites assembled; they were fasting and wearing sackcloth, their heads covered with dust.

Nehemia 9:33

9:33 You are righteous with regard to all that has happened to us, for you have acted faithfully. ¹⁶  It is we who have been in the wrong!

Nehemia 13:27

13:27 Should we then in your case hear that you do all this great evil, thereby being unfaithful to our God by marrying ¹⁷  foreign wives?”

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. ¹⁸ 

Nehemia 6:12

6:12 I recognized the fact that God had not sent him, for he had spoken the prophecy against me as a hired agent of Tobiah and Sanballat. ¹⁹ 

Nehemia 9:18

9:18 even when they made a cast image of a calf for themselves and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up from Egypt,’ or when they committed atrocious ²⁰  blasphemies.

Nehemia 9:28

9:28 “Then, when they were at rest again, they went back to doing evil before you. Then you abandoned them to ²¹  their enemies, and they gained dominion over them. When they again cried out to you, in your compassion you heard from heaven and rescued them time and again.

Nehemia 9:30

9:30 You prolonged your kindness ²²  with them for many years, and you solemnly admonished them by your Spirit through your prophets. Still they paid no attention, ²³  so you delivered them into the hands of the neighboring peoples. ²⁴ 

Nehemia 13:18

13:18 Isn’t this the way your ancestors ²⁵  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!”

[9:2]  ¹ tn Heb “the seed of Israel.”

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

[9:2]  ³ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 9, 16, 23, 32, 34, 36).

[6:13]  ⁴ tc The translation reads לִי (li, “to me”) rather than the MT reading לָהֶם (lahem, “to them”).

[6:13]  ⁵ tn Heb “would have a bad name.”

[4:5]  ⁶ tn The Hiphil stem of כָּעַס (ka’as) may mean: (1) “to provoke to anger”; (2) “to bitterly offend”; or (3) “to grieve” (BDB 495 s.v. Hiph.; HALOT 491 s.v. כעס hif). The Hebrew lexicons suggest that “bitterly offend” is the most appropriate nuance here.

[4:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “before the builders.” The preposition נֶגֶד (neged, “before”) here connotes “in the sight of” or “in the view of” (BDB 617 s.v. 1.a; HALOT 666 s.v. 1.a).

[1:6]  ⁸ tn Heb “have sinned.” For stylistic reasons – to avoid redundancy in English – this was translated as “committed.”

[1:6]  ⁹ tn Heb “the house of my father.”

[13:26]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “gave.”

[9:37]  ¹¹ tn Heb “according to their desire.”

[9:29]  ¹² tn Heb “if a man keep.” See note on the word “obey” in Neh 1:5.

[9:29]  ¹³ tn Heb “they gave a stubborn shoulder.”

[9:29]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “they stiffened their neck.”

[9:3]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “confessing.” The words “their sins” are not present in the Hebrew text of v. 3, but are clearly implied here because they are explicitly stated in v. 2.

[9:33]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “you have done truth.”

[13:27]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “give a dwelling to.”

[1:8]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “peoples.”

[6:12]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.”

[9:18]  ²⁰ tn Heb “great.”

[9:28]  ²¹ tn Heb “in the hand of” (so KJV, ASV); NAB “to the power of.”

[9:30]  ²² tn The Hebrew expression here is elliptical. The words “your kindness” are not included in the Hebrew text, but have been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[9:30]  ²³ tn Heb “did not give ear to.”

[9:30]  ²⁴ tn Heb “the peoples of the lands.”

[13:18]  ²⁵ tn Heb “your fathers.”