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Nehemiah 4:5 KJV
Nehemiah · chapter 4 · verse 5
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.Nehemiah 4:5 · King James Version
Nehemiah 4:5 in context
3Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.
4Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:
5And 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.
6So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.
7But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- iniquityʻâvônperversityH5771 →
- beforepânîymthe faceH6440 →
- coverkâçâhproperly, to plumpH3680 →
- angerkaʻaçto troubleH3707 →
- sinchaṭṭâʼâhan offence , and its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, or expiationH2403 →
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Here is, I. The spiteful scornful reflection which Sanballat and Tobiah cast upon the Jews for their attempt to build the wall about Jerusalem. The country rang of it presently; intelligence was brought of it to Samaria, that nest of enemies to the Jews and their prosperity;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-6