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Old Testament -> Nehemiah

And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair.
Nehemiah 13:25

Nehemiah for Skeptics

Nehemiah might be even more boring than Ezra. Still, there are a couple worth noting.

Check out the contradictions between the boring lists given in Ezra 2 and Neh.7.

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