Nehemia 9:15

9:15 You provided bread from heaven for them in their time of hunger, and you brought forth water from the rock for them in their time of thirst. You told them to enter in order to possess the land that you had sworn ¹  to give them.

Nehemia 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 

[9:15]  ¹ tn Heb “had lifted your hand.”

[13:21]  ² tn The Hebrew text includes the words “to them,” but they have been excluded from the translation for stylistic reasons.

[13:21]  ³ tn Heb “I will send a hand on you.”

[13:21]  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.