3:14 Malkijah son of Recab, head of the district of Beth Hakkerem, worked on the Dung Gate. He rebuilt it and positioned its doors, its bolts, and its bars.
6:5 The fifth time that Sanballat sent his assistant to me in this way, he had an open letter in his hand.
1 tn Heb “and Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.”
2 tc The translation reads לִי (li, “to me”) rather than the MT reading לָהֶם (lahem, “to them”).
3 tn Heb “would have a bad name.”