Nehemiah 2:8

2:8 and a letter for Asaph the keeper of the king’s nature preserve, 1  so that he will give me timber for beams for the gates of the fortress adjacent to the temple and for the city wall 2  and for the house to which I go.” So the king granted me these requests, 3  for the good hand of my God was on me.

Nehemiah 3:15

3:15 Shallun son of Col-Hozeh, head of the district of Mizpah, worked on the Fountain Gate. He rebuilt it, put on its roof, and positioned its doors, its bolts, and its bars. In addition, he rebuilt the wall of the Pool of Siloam, 4  by the royal garden, as far as the steps that go down from the City of David.

Nehemiah 6:6

6:6 Written in it were the following words:

“Among the nations it is rumored 5  (and Geshem 6  has substantiated 7  this) that you and the Jews have intentions of revolting, and for this reason you are building the wall. Furthermore, according to these rumors 8  you are going to become their king.

Nehemiah 12:27

The Wall of Jerusalem is Dedicated

12:27 At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, 9  they sought out the Levites from all the places they lived 10  to bring them to Jerusalem to celebrate the dedication joyfully with songs of thanksgiving and songs accompanied by cymbals, harps, and lyres.

1 tn Or “forest.” So HALOT 963 s.v. פַּרְדֵּס 2.

2 tc One medieval Hebrew MS, the Syriac Peshitta, Vulgate, and the Arabic read here the plural וּלְחוֹמוֹת (ulÿkhomot, “walls”) against the singular וּלְחוֹמַת (ulÿkhomat) in the MT. The plural holem vav (וֹ) might have dropped out due to dittography or the plural form might have been written defectively.

3 tn The Hebrew text does not include the expression “these requests,” but it is implied.

4 tn The Hebrew word translated “Siloam” is הַשֶּׁלַח (hashelakh, “water-channel”; cf. ASV, NASB, NRSV, TEV, CEV “Shelah”). It apparently refers to the Pool of Siloam whose water supply came from the Gihon Spring via Hezekiah’s Tunnel built in 701 B.C. (cf. Isa 8:6). See BDB 1019 s.v. שִׁלֹחַ; W. L. Holladay, Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon, 372. On the etymology of the word, which is a disputed matter, see HALOT 1517 s.v. III שֶׁלַח.

5 tn Heb “heard.”

6 tn Heb “Gashmu”; in Neh 2:19 this name appears as Geshem. Since it is important for the modern reader to recognize that this is the same individual, the form of the name used here in the translation is the same as that in v. 19.

7 tn Heb “is saying.”

8 tn Heb “words.” So also in v. 7.

9 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

10 tn Heb “from all their places.” The words “they lived” are implied.