Nehemiah 4:18

4:18 The builders to a man had their swords strapped to their sides while they were building. But the trumpeter ¹  remained with me.

Nehemiah 6:11

6:11 But I replied, “Should a man like me run away? Would someone like me flee to the temple in order to save his life? ²  I will not go!”

Nehemiah 12:36

12:36 and his colleagues – Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani – with musical instruments of ³  David the man of God. (Ezra the scribe led them.) ⁴ 

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¹ tn Heb “the one blowing the shophar.”

² tn Heb “go into the temple and live.”

³ tn Or “prescribed by” (NIV, NLT); TEV “of the kind played by.” The precise relationship of these musical instruments to David is not clear.

⁴ tn Heb “was before them.”