Text -- Nehemiah 13:21 (NET)

13:21 But I warned them and said, “Why do you spend the night by the wall? If you repeat this, I will forcibly remove you!” From that time on they did not show up on the Sabbath.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Neh 13:21

¹ tn The Hebrew text includes the words “to them,” but they have been excluded from the translation for stylistic reasons.

² tn Heb “I will send a hand on you.”

³ 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.