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 9:35

9:35 Even when they were in their kingdom and benefiting from your incredible ⁴  goodness that you had lavished ⁵  on them in the spacious and fertile land you had set ⁶  before them, they did not serve you, nor did they turn from their evil practices.

Nehemia 10:29

10:29 hereby participate with their colleagues the town leaders ⁷  and enter into a curse and an oath ⁸  to adhere to ⁹  the law of God which was given through Moses the servant of God, and to obey ¹⁰  carefully all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, ¹¹  along with his ordinances and his statutes.

[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.

[9:35]  ⁴ tn Heb “great.”

[9:35]  ⁵ tn Heb “given them.”

[9:35]  ⁶ tn Heb “given.”

[10:29]  ⁷ tn Heb “the nobles.”

[10:29]  ⁸ tn The expression “a curse and an oath” may be a hendiadys, meaning “an oath with penalties.”

[10:29]  ⁹ tn Heb “to walk in.”

[10:29]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “keep.” See the note on the word “obey” in Neh 1:5.

[10:29]  ¹¹ tn The Hebrew term translated “Lord” here is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).