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Selected Verse: Nehemiah 13:21 - Strong Concordance

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Ne 13:21 Strong Concordance Then I testified [05749] against them, and said [0559] unto them, Why lodge [03885] ye about [05048] the wall [02346]? if ye do so again [08138], I will lay [07971] hands [03027] on you. From that time [06256] forth came [0935] they no more on the sabbath [07676].
  King James 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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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
The lodging of the merchants with their merchandise just outside Jerusalem during the Sabbath, marked their impatience for the moment when they might bring their wares in. This was thought by Nehemiah to be unseemly, and to have an irreligious tendency.
 
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