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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Nehemiah 13:25 - 13:25
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cursed them - that is, pronounced on them an anathema which entailed excommunication.
smote ... and plucked off their hair - To cut off the hair of offenders seems to be a punishment rather disgraceful than severe; yet it is supposed that pain was added to disgrace, and that they tore off the hair with violence as if they were plucking a bird alive.