Nehemiah 13:21

Then I testified against them, and said unto them, Why lodge ye about the wall? if ye do [so] again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no [more] on the sabbath.

Then I testified {H5749} against them, and said {H559} unto them, Why lodge {H3885} ye about {H5048} the wall {H2346}? if ye do so again {H8138}, I will lay {H7971} hands {H3027} on you. From that time {H6256} forth came {H935} they no more on the sabbath {H7676}.

until I warned them, "Why are you spending the night by the wall? Do it again, and I'll use force against you!" From then on they stopped coming on Shabbat.

but I warned them, “Why are you camping in front of the wall? If you do it again, I will lay hands on you.” From that time on, they did not return on the Sabbath.

Then I testified against them, and said unto them, Why lodge ye about the wall? if ye do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no more on the sabbath.

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Cross-References

  • Romans 13:3 (4 votes)

    For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:

  • Romans 13:4 (4 votes)

    For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to [execute] wrath upon him that doeth evil.

  • 1 Peter 2:14 (3 votes)

    Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.

  • Ezra 7:26 (3 votes)

    And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether [it be] unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.

  • Nehemiah 13:15 (2 votes)

    ¶ In those days saw I in Judah [some] treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all [manner of] burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified [against them] in the day wherein they sold victuals.