And cover not their [a]iniquity, neither let their sin be put out in thy presence: for they have provoked us before the builders.

So we built the wall, and all the wall was joined unto the [b]half thereof, and the heart of the people was to work.

¶ But when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodims heard that the walls of Jerusalem were repaired, (for the breaches began to be stopped) then they were very wroth,

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 4:5 Let the plagues declare to the world that they set themselves against thee and against thy Church: that he prayeth only having respect to God’s glory and not for any private affection, or grudge.
  2. Nehemiah 4:6 Or, half height.

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