Nehemiah 3:8

3:8 Uzziel son of Harhaiah, a member of the goldsmiths’ guild, worked on the section adjacent to him. Hananiah, a member of the perfumers’ guild, worked on the section adjacent to him. They plastered ¹  the city wall of Jerusalem ²  as far as the Broad Wall.

Nehemiah 5:8

5:8 I said to them, “To the extent possible we have bought back our fellow Jews ³  who had been sold to the Gentiles. But now you yourselves want to sell your own countrymen, ⁴  so that we can then buy them back!” They were utterly silent, and could find nothing to say.

Nehemiah 5:12

5:12 They replied, “We will return these things, ⁵  and we will no longer demand anything from them. We will do just as you say.” Then I called the priests and made the wealthy and the officials ⁶  swear to do what had been promised. ⁷ 

Nehemiah 7:5

7:5 My God placed it on my heart to gather the leaders, ⁸  the officials, and the ordinary people so they could be enrolled on the basis of genealogy. I found the genealogical records ⁹  of those who had formerly returned. Here is what I found written in that record: ¹⁰ 

Nehemiah 8:9

8:9 Then Nehemiah the governor, ¹¹  Ezra the priestly scribe, ¹²  and the Levites who were imparting understanding to the people said to all of them, ¹³  “This day is holy to the LORD your God. Do not mourn or weep.” For all the people had been weeping when they heard the words of the law.

Nehemiah 8:15

8:15 and that they should make a proclamation and disseminate this message ¹⁴  in all their cities and in Jerusalem: ¹⁵  “Go to the hill country and bring back olive branches and branches of wild olive trees, myrtle trees, date palms, and other leafy trees to construct temporary shelters, as it is written.”

Nehemiah 9:19

9:19 “Due to your great compassion you did not abandon them in the desert. The pillar of cloud did not stop guiding them in the path by day, ¹⁶  nor did the pillar of fire stop illuminating for them by night the path on which they should travel.

Nehemiah 9:24

9:24 Their descendants ¹⁷  entered and possessed the land. You subdued before them the Canaanites who were the inhabitants of the land. You delivered them into their hand, together with their kings and the peoples of the land, to deal with as they pleased.

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 ¹⁸  their adversaries.

Nehemiah 12:47

12:47 So in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah, all Israel was contributing the portions for the singers and gatekeepers, according to the daily need. ¹⁹  They also set aside ²⁰  the portion for the Levites, and the Levites set aside the portion for the descendants of Aaron.

Nehemiah 13:5

13:5 He made for himself a large storeroom where previously they had been keeping ²¹  the grain offering, the incense, and the vessels, along with the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil as commanded for the Levites, the singers, the gate keepers, and the offering for the priests.

Nehemiah 13:13

13:13 I gave instructions ²²  that Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and a certain Levite named Pedaiah be put in charge of ²³  the storerooms, and that Hanan son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah, be their assistant, ²⁴  for they were regarded as trustworthy. It was then their responsibility to oversee the distribution to their colleagues. ²⁵ 

Nehemiah 13:15

13:15 In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath, bringing in heaps of grain and loading them onto donkeys, along with wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads, and bringing them to Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I warned them on the day that they sold these provisions.

Nehemiah 13:19

13:19 When the evening shadows ²⁶  began to fall on the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I ordered ²⁷  the doors to be closed. I further directed that they were not to be opened until after the Sabbath. I positioned ²⁸  some of my young men at the gates so that no load could enter on the Sabbath day.

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¹ tc Assuming that the MT reading וַיַּעַזְבוּ (vayya’azvu) is related to the root עָזַב I (“to abandon”) – which makes little sense contextually – some interpreters emend the MT to וַיַּעַזְרוּ (vayya’azru, “they aided”), as suggested by the editors of BHS. However, it is better to relate this term to the root II עָזַב meaning “to restore; to repair” (BDB 738 s.v. II עָזַב) or “to plaster” (HALOT 807 s.v. II עזב qal.1). This homonymic root is rare, appearing elsewhere only in Exod 23:5 and Job 9:27, where it means “to restore; to put in order” (HALOT 807-8 s.v. II עזב qal.2). The related Mishnaic Hebrew noun מעזיבה refers to a “plastered floor.” This Hebrew root is probably related to the cognate Ugaritic, Old South Arabic and Sabean verbs that mean “to restore” and “to prepare; to lay” (see BDB 738 s.v.; HALOT 807 s.v.). Some scholars in the nineteenth century suggested that this term be nuanced “paved.” However, most modern English versions have “restored” (so NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV) or “rebuilt” (so NCV, CEV).

² tn Heb “[the city wall of] Jerusalem.” The term “Jerusalem” probably functions as a metonymy of association for the city wall of Jerusalem. Accordingly, the phrase “the city wall of” has been supplied in the translation to clarify this figurative expression.

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³ tn Heb “our brothers, the Jews.”

⁴ tn Heb “your brothers.”

⁵ tn The words “these things” are not included in the Hebrew text, but have been supplied in the translation for clarity.

⁶ tn Heb “took an oath from them”; the referents (the wealthy and the officials, cf. v. 7) have been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁷ tn Heb “according to this word.”

⁸ tn Heb “nobles”; NCV “important men.”

⁹ tn Heb “the book of genealogy.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “in it”; the referent (the genealogical record) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹¹ tc The unexpected reference to Nehemiah here has led some scholars to suspect that the phrase “Nehemiah the governor” is a later addition to the text and not original.

¹² tn Heb “the priest, the scribe.”

¹³ tn Heb “the people.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy.

¹⁴ tn Heb “a voice.”

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¹⁶ tn Heb “did not turn from them by day to guide them in the path.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “the sons.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “from the hand of” (so NASB, NIV); NAB “from the power of.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “a thing of a day in its day.”

²⁰ tn Heb “were sanctifying.”

²¹ tn Heb “giving.”

²² tc Probably one should read with the Lucianic Greek recension, the Syriac Peshitta, and the Vulgate וָאֲצַוֶּה (va’atsavveh, “and I commanded”) rather than the rare denominative verb וָאוֹצְרָה (va’otsÿrah, “and I appointed over the storeroom”) of the MT.

²³ tn Heb “be over”

²⁴ tn Heb “on their hand.”

²⁵ tn Heb “brothers.”

²⁶ tn Heb “the gates of Jerusalem grew dark.”

²⁷ tn Heb “said” (so also in v. 22).

²⁸ tn Heb “caused to stand.”