Nehemiah 4:5

And couer not their iniquitie, neither let their sinne be put out in thy presence: for they haue prouoked vs before the builders.

Geneva Bible 1599

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

4Heare, O our God (for we are despised) and turne their shame vpon their owne head, and giue them vnto a pray in the lande of their captiuitie,

6So we built the wall, and all the wall was ioyned vnto the halfe thereof, and the heart of the people was to worke.

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Cross References

Psalms 51:1To him that excelleth. A Psalme of David, when the Prophet Nathan came unto him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba. Have mercie vpon me, O God, according to thy louing kindnes: according to the multitude of thy compassions put away mine iniquities.

Psalms 59:5Euen thou, O Lord God of hostes, O God of Israel awake to visit all the heathen, and be not merciful vnto all that transgresse maliciously. Selah.

Psalms 109:14Let the iniquitie of his fathers bee had in remembrance with the Lord: and let not the sinne of his mother be done away.

Isaiah 43:25I, euen I am he that putteth away thine iniquities for mine owne sake, and will not remember thy sinnes.

Jeremiah 18:23Yet Lord thou knowest al their counsel against me tendeth to death: forgiue not their iniquitie, neither put out their sinne from thy sight, but let them be ouerthrowen before thee: deale thus with them in the time of thine 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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