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 1 would be discredited. 2
Nehemiah 7:4
7:4 Now the city was spread out 3 and large, and there were not a lot of people in it. 4 At that time houses had not been rebuilt.
Nehemiah 9:33
9:33 You are righteous with regard to all that has happened to us, for you have acted faithfully. 5 It is we who have been in the wrong!
Nehemiah 12:46
12:46 For long ago, in the days of David and Asaph, there had been directors 6 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 7 of the temple of our God.
1 tc The translation reads לִי (li, “to me”) rather than the MT reading לָהֶם (lahem, “to them”).
2 tn Heb “would have a bad name.”
3 tn Heb “wide of two hands.”
4 tn Heb “the people were few in its midst.”
5 tn Heb “you have done truth.”
6 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.
7 tc The translation reads the plural rather than the singular of the MT.