Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not. 9:21
Trivia: Why did Nehemiah pluck out the hair of Israelite men?
Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not. 9:21
Trivia: Why did Nehemiah pluck out the hair of Israelite men?
"They ... entered into a curse, and into an oath ... that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, not take their daughters for our sons." 10:29-30
Nehemiah rebukes the men for marrying "strange wives." To punish them he "contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair." 13:25-27
