Nehemiah 4:5

Don’t cover their iniquity. Don’t let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted 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

4“Hear, our God, for we are despised. Turn back their reproach on their own head. Give them up for a plunder in a land of captivity.

6So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.

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Cross References

Psalms 51:1Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

Psalms 59:5You, LORD God of Armies, the God of Israel, rouse yourself to punish the nations. Show no mercy to the wicked traitors. Selah.

Psalms 109:14Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by the LORD. Don’t let the sin of his mother be blotted out.

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

Jeremiah 18:23Yet, LORD, you know all their counsel against me to kill me. Don’t forgive their iniquity. Don’t blot out their sin from your sight, Let them be overthrown before you. Deal with them in the time of your anger.

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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