Nehemiah 4:5

-6 and do not cover their iniquity.

LXX2012 (US English)

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 you their reproach upon their head, and make them a scorn in a land of captivity,

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Cross References

Psalms 51:1Why do you, O mighty man, boast of iniquity in your mischief? All the day 1

Psalms 59:5That your beloved ones may be delivered; save with your right hand, and hear me. 1

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

Jeremiah 18:23And you, Lord, know all their deadly counsel against me: account not their iniquities guiltless, and blot not out their sins from before you: let their weakness come before you; deal with them in the time of your 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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