Nehemiah 4:5
4:5 Do not cover their iniquity, and do not wipe out their sin from before them. For they have bitterly offended 1 the builders! 2
Nehemiah 7:4
7:4 Now the city was spread out 3 and large, and there were not a lot of people in it. 4 At that time houses had not been rebuilt.
Nehemiah 9:21
9:21 For forty years you sustained them. Even in the desert they never lacked anything. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.
Nehemiah 9:31
9:31 However, due to your abundant mercy you did not do away with them altogether; you did not abandon them. For you are a merciful and compassionate God.
Nehemiah 10:30
10:30 “We will not give our daughters in marriage to the neighboring peoples, and we will not take their daughters in marriage for our sons.
1 tn The Hiphil stem of כָּעַס (ka’as) 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.
2 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).
3 tn Heb “wide of two hands.”
4 tn Heb “the people were few in its midst.”