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Verse 15. _THE TWENTY AND FIFTH - OF - ELUL_] This Jewish month
answers to a part of our _August_ and _September_.
_FIFTY AND TWO DAYS._] I see no difficulty in supposing that several
thousand workm...
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ELUL - The sixth month, corresponding to the latter part of August and
the beginning of September.
IN FIFTY AND TWO DAYS - Josephus states that the repairs of the wall
occupied two years and four mont...
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CHAPTER 6
_ 1. The attempt to entice Nehemiah (Nehemiah 6:1)_
2. The attempt to intimidate him (Nehemiah 6:5)
3. The attempt through a false prophet (Nehemiah 6:10)
4. The wall finished ...
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FIFTY AND TWO DAYS. If finished on twenty-fifth Elul, and work took
fifty-two days, it must have been commenced on third of Ab (fifth
month). Work rapid, because all materials there: and God's good ha...
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The Completion of the Wall (Nehemiah 6:15); and the impression
produced (Nehemiah 6:16): treasonable correspondence (Nehemiah
6:17-19)
15. _Elul_ This month, which is the same as the Assyrian U-lu-lu,...
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DISCOURSE: 444
THE EXPEDITION WITH WHICH THE WALL OF JERUSALEM WAS BUILT
Nehemiah 6:15. _So the wall was finished …in fifty and two days_.
A MERE historic record of the time occupied in rebuilding th...
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THE WALL WAS FINISHED—IN FIFTY-AND-TWO DAYS— How long Nehemiah was
in finishing the walls of Jerusalem, interpreters are not agreed;
because some of them, supposing the space of two-and-fifty days, he...
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4. Success is achieved in spite of some differences with Tobiah.
TEXT, NEHEMIAH 6:15-19
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So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth of the month Elul, in
fifty-two days.
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And it came about...
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ATTEMPTS OF SANBALLAT TO HINDER THE COMPLETION OF THE WALLS
2. Ono] near Lod (Ezra 2:33), now Kefr Ana, some 25 m. from Jerusalem....
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ELUL] The 6th month (August-September) of 445 b.c....
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Although their enemies tried to stop the work, the people built the
walls of Jerusalem in just 52 days. The people had worked very hard.
Nehemiah always knew that the *Jews were doing God’s work. Now...
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THE *JEWS BUILD JERUSALEM’S CITY WALL AGAIN
NEHEMIAH
_ROBERT BRYCE AND ROBERT BETTS_
CHAPTER 6
V1 Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the *Arab and the rest of our enemies
heard that I had finished the wall...
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IN FIFTY AND TWO DAYS. — The twenty-fifth day of Elul answers to
about our September 15th; and, dating back, the wall began in the
latter part of July, soon after Nehemiah’s arrival. If we bear in
min...
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The finishing of the wall is recorded in the implest manner: first,
with a formal specification of the date and time; then in its effect
upon the enemies, and as redounding to the glory of God....
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וַ תִּשְׁלַם֙ הַֽ חֹומָ֔ה בְּ
עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וַ
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WISE AS SERPENTS
Nehemiah 6:1
OPEN opposition had totally failed. The watchful garrison had not once
permitted a surprise. In spite of the persistent malignity of his
enemies, Nehemiah had raised the...
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A GREAT TASK-A SAFEGUARD FROM DANGER
Nehemiah 6:1
How often Satan tries to call us off from our work for God! He cannot
endure to see us engaged so eagerly on our Master's business and
therefore rais...
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In this chapter we have the account of the continuity of opposition to
the work of Nehemiah. It moved, however, on to a new plane. Having
begun in contempt, and proceeded through conspiracy, it now at...
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So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth [day] of [the month]
(h) Elul, in (i) fifty and two days.
(h) Which was the sixth month and contained part of August, and part
of September.
(i) Afte...
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Elul, the last of the civil year, corresponding with our August and
September, when the walls were dedicated, chap. xii. 27. --- Days.
Josephus ([Antiquities?] xi. 5.) says, "two years and three (Gree...
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(15) В¶ So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the
month Elul, in fifty and two days.
See what a short work was made of it when the hand of the Lord was
upon them, and with them. So...
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Open Warfare
I. INTRODUCTION
A. Last week in our study of Nehemiah we talked about the tremendous
freedom we have in Christ!
1. In fact, the title was "Liberty or Bondage?"
2. Paul tells us in 1 C...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 2, 3, 4, 5, AND 6.
The time in which Nehemiah laboured for the good of his people was not
one of those brilliant phases which, if faith be there, awaken even...
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So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth [day] of [the month]
Elul, in fifty and two days.
Ver. 15. _So the wall was finished_] Though with much ado, and maugre
the malice of all foreign and...
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_The wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul_
Answering part to our August and part to September. _In fifty and two
days_ To be computed either from the time of Sanballat's sen...
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1 Sanballat practiseth by craft, by rumours, by hired prophecies, to
terrifie Nehemiah.
15 The worke is finished to the terrour of the enemies.
17 Secret intelligence passeth betweene the enemies, a...
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THE WALL COMPLETED...
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So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month
Elul, corresponding roughly to the latter part of August and the
greater part of September, IN FIFTY AND TWO DAYS, showing that the
bu...
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FURTHER SUBTLE OPPOSITION
(vv. 1-14)
Chapter 5 has been practically a parenthesis in this book, for
Nehemiah had to delay the building of the wall in order to deal with
serious problems inside. How...
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15-19 The wall was begun and finished in fifty-two days, though they
rested on the sabbaths. A great deal of work may be done in a little
time, if we set about it in earnest, and keep close to it. Se...
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THE MONTH ELUL; answering part to our August and part to September. IN
FIFTY AND TWO DAYS; to be computed, either,
1. From the time of Sanballat's sending this letter to him; or,
2. As most judge, f...
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Nehemiah 6:15 wall H2346 finished H7999 (H8799) twenty-fifth H6242
H2568 Elul H435 fifty-two H2572 H8147 days...
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Nehemiah 6:15
‘So the wall was finished in the twenty fifth (day) of (the month)
Elul, in fifty two days.'
The wall was completed on the 25th day of Elul (in the twentieth year
of Artaxerxes), fifty...
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NEHEMIAH OUTSMARTS HIS ADVERSARIES UNTIL THE WALLS ARE COMPLETED
(NEHEMIAH 6:1)
Work on the walls had meanwhile being going on apace with the result
that it was finally completed apart from the settin...
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ELUL
sixth monththat is, September....
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Nehemiah 2:17 ; NEHEMIAH 6:15; NEHEMIAH 12:43
I. Consider the fact of declension, decadence, degeneration, from a
Divine type. Of this we have two instances: in Israel and in the
Church. (1) Under the...
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CONTENTS: Opposition by craft. Nehemiah's manly firmness. The wall
done.
CHARACTERS: God, Nehemiah, Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem, Gashum,
Shemaiah.
CONCLUSION: Christian fortitude will always be sharpe...
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Nehemiah 6:6. _Thou mayest be king._ Sanballat accused this very old
man of a crime that was in his own heart, had he but seen an opening,
for he kept a standing army in Samaria.
Nehemiah 6:7. _There...
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_So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day. .. in fifty and
two days._
FIFTY-TWO DAYS’ WORK
Let us make a parable of the story and use the text as a motto of a
deeper theme. Fifty-two Sun...
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_Now it came to pass, when Sanballat._
THE WITNESS TO THE TRUTH
I. His trial, from the stratagems of enemies. The circumstances of his
trial were peculiar. Faith and prayer and pains had now achieved...
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NEHEMIAH—NOTE ON NEHEMIAH 6:15 ELUL was the sixth MONTH
(August/September), so it has been less than six months since Nehemiah
spoke to the king. they perceived that this work had been ac
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EXPLANATORY NOTES.] “When Sanballat and the enemies associated with
him were unable to obstruct the building of the wall of Jerusalem by
open violence, they endeavoured to ruin Nehemiah by secret snar...
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EXPOSITION
SECRET PROCEEDINGS OF SANBALLAT AND HIS FRIENDS TO HINDER THE BUILDING
OF THE WALL, AND THEIR FAILURE. THE WALL COMPLETED ...
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Now his enemies weren't yet through; they still continued to seek to
hinder the work and discourage him. And so when Sanballat and Tobiah
saw that the work was going on and the walls were getting up t...
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Daniel 9:25; Ezra 6:15; Nehemiah 4:1; Nehemiah 4:2; Psalms 1:3...
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Elul — Answering part to our August, and part to September....