Nehemiah 4:5

Don't forgive their guilt or blot out their sins, for they have made you angry in front of the builders.”

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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

4I prayed, “Lord, please listen to us, because we are being treated with contempt. Rain down their insults on their own heads! Let them be taken away like plunder, prisoners in a foreign land!

6So we rebuilt the wall until it was all connected, reaching half its height, because the people were keen to work.

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Cross References

Psalms 51:1God, please be gracious to me, because of your trustworthy love, because of your infinite kindness please wipe away my sins.

Psalms 59:5You are God, the Lord Almighty, God of Israel. Stand up, and punish all the nations. Don't have any mercy on these evil traitors. Selah.

Psalms 109:14May the Lord be reminded of the sins of his fathers; may his mother's sins not be blotted out.

Isaiah 43:25I, yes I am the God who wipes out your sins because of who I am, and who doesn't remember your sins any more.

Jeremiah 18:23But Lord, you know about all their plots to try and kill me. Don't forgive their wickedness; don't wipe away their sin. Bring them down! Deal with them when you're angry!

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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