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THE HOLY BIBLE (Darby Translation) Darby's Notes on Nehemiah
Chapter Selection:

1:1c Nehemiah

Meaning, 'Comfort of Jehovah.'

1:1d year

That is, of Artaxerxes Longimanus; see ch. 2:1; Ezra 7:1.

1:1e Shushan

The capital of Elam.

1:1f fortress

Or 'palace.'

1:6a time

Or 'this day.'

2:1b Artaxerxes

See Ezra 7:1.

2:3c place

Lit. 'house.'

2:8d forest

Heb. 'paradise,' 'park' or 'pleasure-grounds.'

2:8e palace

Or 'fortress.'

2:10a Horonite

According to some, 'of Beth-Horon,' Josh. 16:3, 5; according to others, 'of Horonaim in Moab,' Isa. 15:5

2:13b valley-gate

Gate of the valley or ravine of Hinnom.

2:15c valley

Or 'torrent:' see Deut. 2:13.

2:16d rulers

See Ezra 9:2.

2:19e Geshem

Gashmu: see ch. 6:6.

3:2f them

Lit. 'him.'

3:3g Senaah

Or 'Hassenaah.'

3:4h Koz

Or 'Hakkoz,' also ver. 21.

3:7a seat

Or 'throne;' as Gen. 41:40.

3:7b governor

Or 'pacha;' see Ezra 8:36.

3:8c, 3:12c, 3:23c them

Lit. 'him.'

3:8d perfumers

Lit. 'son of perfumers.'

3:8e as

Others, 'the Chaldeans had left the walls of Jerusalem as far as.'

3:15f Shelah

Siloam, John 9:7.

3:15g city

The part of Jerusalem thus called.

3:19h angle

Or 'turning:' so vers. 20, 24, 25.

3:20i, 3:21i, 3:24i another

Heb. 'a second.'

3:22k Jordan

See Gen. 13:10.

3:26a Nethinim

See Note, 1Chron. 9:2.

3:26b Ophel

See 2Chron. 27:3

3:29c, 3:30c them

Lit. 'him.'

3:30d chamber

Lit. 'lodging.'

3:31e the

Lit. 'son of the.'

3:31f place

Lit. 'house.'

3:31g, 3:32g of

Or 'upper chamber in.'

4:4h prey

Or 'to reproach.'

4:6i mind

Lit. 'heart.'

4:8k hinder

Or 'harm.'

4:11l adversaries

Tzar, as Ezra 4:1.

4:12m returned

Heb. 'ye return.'

4:14a, 4:19a, 5:7a rulers

As Ezra 9:2.

4:16b shields

Small shields.

4:22c servant

Heb. 'young man;' and so ver. 23 and ch. 5:15, 16.

4:23d side

Others. '... in going to the water;' probably a corrupt reading.

5:2e procure

Or 'let us procure.'

5:5f hand

As Gen. 31:29.

5:8a redeemed

Strictly, 'bought.'

5:11b day

Or 'at once.'

5:14c bread

* i.e. what he was entitled to as governor (pacha) of Jerusalem.

5:17d rulers

See Ezra 9:2.

6:2e plain

Or 'valley:' see Josh. 11:8.

6:5a servant

Heb. 'young man.'

6:10b night

Or 'to-night.'

6:19c deeds

Lit. 'kindnesses;' cf. ch. 9:25. Not chasidim, which would be 'pious deeds,' as ch. 13:14.

6:19d words

Or 'matters.'

7:5a rulers

See Ezra 9:2.

7:5b register

See Ezra 2.

7:6c children

Lit. 'sons,' and so throughout the chapter.

7:26d men

Enosh; and so to ver. 33.

7:52a Meunim

Or 'the Maonites:' see Ezra 2:50.

7:52b Nephishesim

Or 'the Nephusites:' see Ezra 2:50.

7:63c Hobaiah

Habaiah, Ezra 2:61.

7:65d Tirshatha

See Note a, Ezra 2:63.

7:65e Thummim

See Ex. 28:30; Lev. 8:8; Num. 27:21; Deut. 33:8; 1Sam. 28:6; Ezra 2:63.

7:71a pounds

Heb. maneh, as Ezra 2:69.

7:73b cities

Ch. 8 begins here in A.V. See Ezra 3:1.

8:18a read

Or 'one read;' 'there was reading.'

9:5b eternity

See 1Chron. 16:36; Ps. 41:13; 106:48; Dan. 2:20.

9:6c, 9:7c Same

Or 'Thou art He,' an expression which is really a name of God: see Deut. 32:39.

9:13a judgments

Or 'ordinances.'

9:15b sworn

Lit. 'lifted up thy hand.'

9:16c our

Or 'they and our.'

9:17d among

Lit. 'with.'

9:17e forgive

Lit. 'a God of pardons.'

9:17f loving-kindness

Chesed -- mercy: so ch. 13:22. See 2Chron. 6:42.

9:25a good, goodness

See Note c, ch. 6:19.

9:34b them

Or 'in the midst of them.'

9:36c servants

Or 'bondmen.'

10:31a debt

Lit. 'the debt of every hand,' i.e. for which any had given his hand. Ex. 23:10, 11; Deut. 15:1, 2.

10:32b ordinances

Lit. Lit. 'commandments.'

10:33c holy

Kodesh: see Note, Ex. 25:8. It might read 'consecrated things.'

10:37a meal

Or 'dough.' as Num. 15:20; Ezek. 44:30.

11:5b Shiloni

Or 'of the Shilonites:' see 1Chron. 9:5.

11:9c Senuah

Or 'Hassenuah.'

11:10d of

See 1Chron. 9:10.

11:11e ruler

Or 'overseer.'

11:14a Gedolim

Or 'Haggedolim.'

11:24b hand

i.e. at Shushan.

11:25c hamlets

Or 'enclosures,' 'farms;' Gen. 25:16.

11:25d villages

Lit. 'daughters,' also in vers. 27, 28, 30, 31, and elsewhere often.

12:9a watches

Or 'in their charges.'

12:12b of

Or 'for;' and so all through this passage.

12:17c Moadiah

Maadiah, ver. 5

12:22d, 12:23d Johanan

Jonathan, ver. 11.

12:22e until

Or 'under.'

12:22f Persian

Darius III. Codomanus; according to those who translate 'under the reign,' it would be Darius II, Nothus.

12:29g Beth-Gilgal

Or 'the house of Gilgal.'

12:29h hamlets

See ch. 11:25.

12:40a rulers

See Ezra 9:2.

12:43b offered

Zevach: lit. 'sacrificed.'

12:44c time

Or 'on that day.'

12:47d consecrated

Or 'set apart as holy.'

13:1e day

Or 'at that time,' as ch. 12:44.

13:4f chambers

Lit. 'chamber.'

13:11a rulers

See Ezra 9:2.

13:11b together

i.e. the Levites and singers.

13:12c storehouses

Elsewhere 'treasuries.'

13:14d deeds

Chasidim, as 2Chron. 32:32; 35:26: see 2Sam. 22:26.

13:19e servants

Lit. 'young men,' as elsewhere.

13:30a service

Lit. 'work.'