Nehemia 3:15

3:15 Shallun son of Col-Hozeh, head of the district of Mizpah, worked on the Fountain Gate. He rebuilt it, put on its roof, and positioned its doors, its bolts, and its bars. In addition, he rebuilt the wall of the Pool of Siloam, ¹  by the royal garden, as far as the steps that go down from the City of David.

Nehemia 8:18

8:18 Ezra ²  read in the book of the law of God day by day, from the first day to the last. ³  They observed the festival for seven days, and on the eighth day they held an assembly ⁴  as was required. ⁵ 

Nehemia 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, ⁶  nor did the pillar of fire stop illuminating for them by night the path on which they should travel.

Nehemia 11:25

11:25 As for the settlements with their fields, some of the people of Judah settled in Kiriath Arba and its neighboring villages, ⁷  in Dibon and its villages, in Jekabzeel and its settlements,

[3:15]  ¹ tn The Hebrew word translated “Siloam” is הַשֶּׁלַח (hashelakh, “water-channel”; cf. ASV, NASB, NRSV, TEV, CEV “Shelah”). It apparently refers to the Pool of Siloam whose water supply came from the Gihon Spring via Hezekiah’s Tunnel built in 701 B.C. (cf. Isa 8:6). See BDB 1019 s.v. שִׁלֹחַ; W. L. Holladay, Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon, 372. On the etymology of the word, which is a disputed matter, see HALOT 1517 s.v. III שֶׁלַח.

[8:18]  ² tn Heb “He”; the referent (Ezra) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:18]  ³ tn Heb “the last day.”

[8:18]  ⁴ tn Heb “on the eighth day an assembly.” The words “they held” have been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[8:18]  ⁵ tn Heb “according to the judgment.”

[9:19]  ⁶ tn Heb “did not turn from them by day to guide them in the path.”

[11:25]  ⁷ tn Heb “its daughters.” So also in vv. 27, 28, 30, and 31.