Nehemia 2:8

2:8 and a letter for Asaph the keeper of the king’s nature preserve, ¹  so that he will give me timber for beams for the gates of the fortress adjacent to the temple and for the city wall ²  and for the house to which I go.” So the king granted me these requests, ³  for the good hand of my God was on me.

Nehemia 7:61

7:61 These are the ones who came up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Kerub, Addon, and Immer (although they were unable to certify ⁴  their family connection ⁵  or their ancestry, ⁶  as to whether they were really from Israel):

Nehemia 9:35

9:35 Even when they were in their kingdom and benefiting from your incredible ⁷  goodness that you had lavished ⁸  on them in the spacious and fertile land you had set ⁹  before them, they did not serve you, nor did they turn from their evil practices.

[2:8]  ¹ tn Or “forest.” So HALOT 963 s.v. פַּרְדֵּס 2.

[2:8]  ² tc One medieval Hebrew MS, the Syriac Peshitta, Vulgate, and the Arabic read here the plural וּלְחוֹמוֹת (ulÿkhomot, “walls”) against the singular וּלְחוֹמַת (ulÿkhomat) in the MT. The plural holem vav (וֹ) might have dropped out due to dittography or the plural form might have been written defectively.

[2:8]  ³ tn The Hebrew text does not include the expression “these requests,” but it is implied.

[7:61]  ⁴ tn Heb “relate.”

[7:61]  ⁵ tn Heb “the house of their fathers.”

[7:61]  ⁶ tn Heb “their seed.”

[9:35]  ⁷ tn Heb “great.”

[9:35]  ⁸ tn Heb “given them.”

[9:35]  ⁹ tn Heb “given.”