Nehemiah 1:9

1:9 But if you repent ¹  and obey ²  my commandments and do them, then even if your dispersed people are in the most remote location, ³  I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen for my name to reside.’

Nehemiah 2:12

2:12 I got up during the night, along with a few men who were with me. But I did not tell anyone what my God was putting on my heart to do for Jerusalem. There were no animals with me, except for the one ⁴  I was riding.

Nehemiah 5:8

5:8 I said to them, “To the extent possible we have bought back our fellow Jews ⁵  who had been sold to the Gentiles. But now you yourselves want to sell your own countrymen, ⁶  so that we can then buy them back!” They were utterly silent, and could find nothing to say.

Nehemiah 9:17

9:17 They refused to obey and did not recall your miracles that you had performed among them. Instead, they rebelled and appointed a leader to return to their bondage in Egypt. ⁷  But you are a God of forgiveness, merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and unfailing in your loyal love. ⁸  You did not abandon them,

Nehemiah 9:27

9:27 Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who oppressed them. But in the time of their distress they called to you, and you heard from heaven. In your abundant compassion you provided them with deliverers to rescue them from ⁹  their adversaries.

Nehemiah 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, ¹⁰  will live. They boldly turned from you; ¹¹  they rebelled ¹²  and did not obey.

Nehemiah 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 ¹³  him king over all Israel. But the foreign wives made even him sin!

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¹ tn Heb “turn to me.”

² tn Heb “keep.” See the note on the word “obey” in Neh 1:5.

³ tn Heb “at the end of the heavens.”

⁴ tn Heb “the animal.”

⁵ tn Heb “our brothers, the Jews.”

⁶ tn Heb “your brothers.”

⁷ tc The present translation follows a few medieval Hebrew MSS and the LXX in reading בְּמִצְרָיִם (bÿmitsrayim, “in Egypt”; so also NAB, NASB, NRSV, TEV, NLT) rather than the MT reading בְּמִרְיָם (bÿmiryam, “in their rebellion”).

⁸ tc The translation follows the Qere reading חֶסֶד (khesed, “loyal love”) rather than the Kethib reading וְחֶסֶד (vÿkhesed, “and loyal love”) of the MT.

⁹ tn Heb “from the hand of” (so NASB, NIV); NAB “from the power of.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “if a man keep.” See note on the word “obey” in Neh 1:5.

¹¹ tn Heb “they gave a stubborn shoulder.”

¹² tn Heb “they stiffened their neck.”

¹³ tn Heb “gave.”