Nehemiah 1:9
Context1:9 But if you repent 1 and obey 2 my commandments and do them, then even if your dispersed people are in the most remote location, 3 I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen for my name to reside.’
Nehemiah 3:4
Context3:4 Meremoth son of Uriah, the son of Hakoz, worked on the section adjacent to them. Meshullam son of Berechiah the son of Meshezabel worked on the section next to them. And Zadok son of Baana worked on the section adjacent to them.
Nehemiah 9:19
Context9:19 “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, 4 nor did the pillar of fire stop illuminating for them by night the path on which they should travel.
Nehemiah 9:28-29
Context9:28 “Then, when they were at rest again, they went back to doing evil before you. Then you abandoned them to 5 their enemies, and they gained dominion over them. When they again cried out to you, in your compassion you heard from heaven and rescued them time and again. 9:29 And you solemnly admonished them in order to return them to your law, but they behaved presumptuously and did not obey your commandments. They sinned against your ordinances – those by which an individual, if he obeys them, 6 will live. They boldly turned from you; 7 they rebelled 8 and did not obey.
Nehemiah 13:15
Context13:15 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 13:25
Context13:25 So I entered a complaint with them. I called down a curse on them, and I struck some of the men and pulled out their hair. I had them swear by God saying, “You will not marry off 9 your daughters to their sons, and you will not take any of their daughters as wives for your sons or for yourselves!
1 tn Heb “turn to me.”
2 tn Heb “keep.” See the note on the word “obey” in Neh 1:5.
3 tn Heb “at the end of the heavens.”
4 tn Heb “did not turn from them by day to guide them in the path.”
5 tn Heb “in the hand of” (so KJV, ASV); NAB “to the power of.”
6 tn Heb “if a man keep.” See note on the word “obey” in Neh 1:5.
7 tn Heb “they gave a stubborn shoulder.”
8 tn Heb “they stiffened their neck.”
9 tn Heb “give.”