Nehemiah 4:5

and do not cover their iniquity.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders.

In Context

4Hear, O our God, for we have become a scorn; and return thou their reproach upon their head, and make them a scorn in a land of captivity,

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Cross References

Psalms 51:1For the end, a Psalm of + 51:1 Gr. governing.instruction by David,

Psalms 59:5Thou hast shewn thy people hard things: thou hast made us drink the wine of astonishment.

Isaiah 43:25+ 43:25 Gr. I am, I am.I, even I, am he that blots out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and thy sins; and I will not remember them.

Jeremiah 18:23And thou, Lord, knowest all their deadly counsel against me: account not their iniquities guiltless, and blot not out their sins from before thee: let their weakness come before thee; deal with them in the time of thy wrath.

Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 4:2-7

The Opposition of Sanballat, &c.. ( b. c. 445.) 1 But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews. 2 And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned? 3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they… Read the whole commentary →

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