Nehemiah 4:22
4:22 At that time I instructed 1 the people, “Let every man and his coworker spend the night in Jerusalem and let them be guards for us by night and workers by day.
Nehemiah 13:21
13:21 But I warned them and said, 2 “Why do you spend the night by the wall? If you repeat this, I will forcibly remove you!” 3 From that time on they did not show up on the Sabbath. 4
1 tn Heb “said [to].”
2 tn The Hebrew text includes the words “to them,” but they have been excluded from the translation for stylistic reasons.
3 tn Heb “I will send a hand on you.”
4 sn This statement contains a great deal of restrained humor. The author clearly takes pleasure in the effectiveness of the measures that he had enacted.