Nehemia 4:11

4:11 Our adversaries also boasted, ¹  “Before they are aware or anticipate ²  anything, we will come in among them and kill them, and we will bring this work to a halt!”

Nehemia 4:15

4:15 It so happened that when our adversaries heard that we were aware of these matters, ³  God frustrated their intentions. Then all of us returned to the wall, each to his own work.

Nehemia 4:22-23

4:22 At that time I instructed ⁴  the people, “Let every man and his coworker spend the night in Jerusalem and let them be guards for us by night and workers by day. 4:23 We did not change clothes ⁵  – not I, nor my relatives, nor my workers, nor the watchmen who were with me. Each had his weapon, even when getting a drink of water. ⁶ 

Nehemia 5:6

5:6 I was very angry when I heard their outcry and these complaints. ⁷ 

Nehemia 7:57

7:57 The descendants of the servants of Solomon:

the descendants of Sotai, the descendants of Sophereth, the descendants of Perida,

Nehemia 11:36

11:36 Some of the Judean divisions of the Levites settled in Benjamin.

[4:11]  ¹ tn Heb “said.”

[4:11]  ² tn Heb “see.”

[4:15]  ³ tn Heb “it was known to us.”

[4:22]  ⁴ tn Heb “said [to].”

[4:23]  ⁵ tn Heb “strip off our garments.”

[4:23]  ⁶ tc Heb “a man, his weapon, the waters.” The MT, if in fact it is correct, is elliptical and difficult. Some scholars emend the MT reading הַמָּיִם (hammayim, “the waters”) to בִּמִנוֹ (bimino, “in his right hand”; cf. NAB, NRSV) or מִינוּ(י)הֵ (heminu, “they held on the right side”).

[5:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “words.”