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Nehemiah 4:5-7
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Nehemiah 4:5-7
New English Translation
5 Do not cover their iniquity, and do not wipe out their sin from your sight, for they have bitterly offended[a] the builders.[b]
6 So we rebuilt the wall, and the entire wall was joined together up to half its height.[c] The people were enthusiastic in their work.[d]
7 (4:1)[e] When Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites, and the people of Ashdod heard that the restoration of the walls of Jerusalem had moved ahead and that the breaches had begun to be closed, they were very angry.
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- Nehemiah 4:5 tn The Hiphil stem of כָּעַס (kaʿas) may mean: (1) “to provoke to anger”; (2) “to bitterly offend”; or (3) “to grieve” (BDB 495 s.v. Hiph.; HALOT 491 s.v. כעס hif). The Hebrew lexicons suggest that “bitterly offend” is the most appropriate nuance here.
- Nehemiah 4:5 tn Heb “before the builders.” The preposition נֶגֶד (neged, “before”) here connotes “in the sight of” or “in the view of” (BDB 617 s.v. 1.a; HALOT 666 s.v. 1.a).
- Nehemiah 4:6 tn Heb “up to its half.”
- Nehemiah 4:6 tn Heb “the people had a heart to work.”
- Nehemiah 4:7 sn Chapter 4 begins here in the Hebrew text (BHS). See the note at 4:1.
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