8:15 I had them assemble 1 at the canal 2 that flows toward Ahava, and we camped there for three days. I observed that the people and the priests were present, but I found no Levites there.
9:13 “Everything that has happened to us has come about because of our wicked actions and our great guilt. Even so, our God, you have exercised restraint 3 toward our iniquities and have given us a remnant such as this.
1 tn Or “I gathered them.”
2 tn Heb “river.” So also in vv. 21, 31.
3 tn Heb “held back downwards from”; KJV “hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve” (NIV, NRSV, NLT all similar).