Nehemia 4:11

4:11 Our adversaries also boasted, ¹  “Before they are aware or anticipate ²  anything, we will come in among them and kill them, and we will bring this work to a halt!”

Nehemia 13:21

13:21 But I warned them and said, ³  “Why do you spend the night by the wall? If you repeat this, I will forcibly remove you!” ⁴  From that time on they did not show up on the Sabbath. ⁵ 

[4:11]  ¹ tn Heb “said.”

[4:11]  ² tn Heb “see.”

[13:21]  ³ tn The Hebrew text includes the words “to them,” but they have been excluded from the translation for stylistic reasons.

[13:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “I will send a hand on you.”

[13:21]  ⁵ 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.