Nehemiah 2:10

2:10 When Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official ¹  heard all this, they were very displeased that someone had come to seek benefit for the Israelites.

Nehemiah 4:18

4:18 The builders to a man had their swords strapped to their sides while they were building. But the trumpeter ²  remained with me.

Nehemiah 6:5

6:5 The fifth time that Sanballat sent his assistant to me in this way, he had an open letter in his hand.

Nehemiah 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 ³  would be discredited. ⁴ 

Nehemiah 7:4

7:4 Now the city was spread out ⁵  and large, and there were not a lot of people in it. ⁶  At that time houses had not been rebuilt.

Nehemiah 8:14

8:14 They discovered written in the law that the LORD had commanded through ⁷  Moses that the Israelites should live in temporary shelters during the festival of the seventh month,

Nehemiah 9:23

9:23 You multiplied their descendants like the stars of the sky. You brought them to the land you had told their ancestors to enter in order to possess.

Nehemiah 12:29

12:29 and from Beth Gilgal and from the fields of Geba and Azmaveth, for the singers had built settlements for themselves around Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 12:46

12:46 For long ago, in the days of David and Asaph, there had been directors ⁸  for the singers and for the songs of praise and thanks to God.

Nehemiah 13:4

13:4 But prior to this time, Eliashib the priest, a relative of Tobiah, had been appointed over the storerooms ⁹  of the temple of our God.

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¹ tn Heb “servant” (so KJV, ASV; NAB “slave”; NCV “officer.” This phrase also occurs in v. 19.

² tn Heb “the one blowing the shophar.”

³ tc The translation reads לִי (li, “to me”) rather than the MT reading לָהֶם (lahem, “to them”).

⁴ tn Heb “would have a bad name.”

⁵ tn Heb “wide of two hands.”

⁶ tn Heb “the people were few in its midst.”

⁷ tn Heb “by the hand of.”

⁸ tn Heb “heads.” The translation reads with the Qere the plural רֹאשֵׁי (ro’shey, “heads”) rather than the Kethib singular רֹאשׁ (ro’sh, “head”) of the MT.

⁹ tc The translation reads the plural rather than the singular of the MT.