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Verse Nehemiah 4:23. _NONE OF US PUT OFF OUR CLOTHES, SAVING THAT
EVERY ONE_ _PUT THEM OFF FOR WASHING._] The Hebrew for all this is
only אין אנחנו פשטים בגדינו איש שלחו
המים _ein anachnu poshetim be...
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SAVING ... - The text here is probably unsound. It yields no
satisfactory sense. See the margin....
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CHAPTER 4
_ 1. The indignation and sneers of the enemies (Nehemiah 4:1)_
2. Nehemiah's ejaculatory prayer (Nehemiah 4:4)
3. Conspiracy, and more prayer (Nehemiah 4:7)
4. Nehemiah's precautions and...
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SAMARITAN ATTEMPT TO FRUSTRATE THE BUILDING OF THE WALLS. In Nehemiah
4:2 f. the text is very corrupt, though the general sense of the
passage is fairly clear, viz. the Samaritans mock the efforts mad...
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THE MEN OF THE GUARD. The Persian guard attached to Nehemiah.
NONE OF US, &C. The Hebrew is literally "none of us put off our
clothes; each man went with his weapon (or tool) [and his] water"..
single...
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_my brethren … servants … men of the guard which followed me_
Nehemiah mentions in detail those in whom he had complete confidence
and upon whose faithfulness the success of his project depended. Thes...
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SAVING THAT EVERY ONE PUT THEM OFF FOR WASHING— _Even for a whole
month._ Houbigant.
REFLECTIONS.—1st, Never did the cause of God begin to prosper, but
the enemies of God began to malign and resist i...
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3. Work progresses in the midst of precautions.
TEXT, NEHEMIAH 4:15-23
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And it happened when our enemies heard that it was known to us, and
that God had frustrated their plan, then all of us retu...
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_SO NEITHER I, NOR MY BRETHREN, NOR MY SERVANTS, NOR THE MEN OF THE
GUARD WHICH FOLLOWED ME, NONE OF US PUT OFF OUR CLOTHES, SAVING THAT
EVERY ONE PUT THEM OFF FOR WASHING._
None of us put off our cl...
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4:23 side. (d-34) Others. '... [in going to] the water;' probably a
corrupt reading....
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THE MACHINATIONS OF THE ENEMIES OF THE JEWS
1. Sanballat] His irritation at Nehemiah's arrival (Nehemiah 2:10) was
increased by the work accomplished by the latter....
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MEN OF THE GUARD] i.e. the Persian guard attached to Nehemiah as
governor: cp. Nehemiah 2:9. _Saving that_ .. WASHING] RV renders,'
every one _went with_ his weapon _to_ the water': whilst others
sugg...
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So the people continued to work. Some repaired the walls and the rest
protected them. They all worked even harder from dawn until nightfall.
Even the people who lived outside Jerusalem stayed in the c...
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THE *JEWS BUILD JERUSALEM’S CITY WALL AGAIN
NEHEMIAH
_ROBERT BRYCE AND ROBERT BETTS_
CHAPTER 4
V1 Sanballat heard that we were building the wall again. So he became
very angry. He laughed at the...
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SAVING THAT EVERY ONE PUT THEM OFF FOR WASHING. — This rendering is
very improbable, as the words are simply: “every man his weapon
water.” Some interpret that “each man’s weapon was his water”:
evide...
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_[Nehemiah 4:17]_ וְ אֵ֨ין אֲנִ֜י וְ אַחַ֣י...
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Nehemiah 2:19
ON GUARD
Nehemiah 2:10; Nehemiah 2:19; Nehemiah 4:1
ALL his arrangements for rebuilding the walls of Jerusale
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THE TRIUMPH OF COURAGE AND DEVOTION
Nehemiah 4:13
The work of rebuilding the ruins of Zion is typical of our efforts as
Christians to counteract the deterioration which is ever at work in
our own hea...
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As the work proceeded, the opposition of outsiders turned from
derision to anger, but rose no higher at the moment than contempt.
However, Nehemiah was conscious of the menace of this attitude, and
li...
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So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the
guard which followed me, none of us put off our clothes, [saving that]
every one put them off (l) for washing.
(l) That is, when the...
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_Clothes, even to sleep. --- Only. Septuagint (Complutensian), "man
and his arms to the water." (Haydock) --- They went armed to fetch
water; (Malvenda) or they had their armour and water always at ha...
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(16) В¶ And it came to pass from that time forth, that the half of
my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both
the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the habergeons; and...
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REFLECTIONS
READER! you and I shall derive very sweet improvements from this
chapter, if, under the teaching of God the Holy Ghost, we discover our
personal interest in it, and amidst all the oppositi...
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Fighting and Building
I. INTRODUCTION
A. Last week in our study of Nehemiah, we saw that no spiritual
re-building can be done effectively without first removing the
rubbish.
1. Sin makes a lousy fo...
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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 neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the
guard which followed me, none of us put off our clothes, [saving that]
every one put them off for washing.
Ver. 23. _So neither I_]...
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_None of us put off our clothes_ Neither by day nor by night, as the
manner is when people go to rest, but they constantly kept themselves
in readiness to fight, if any assault were made on the city....
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1 While the enemies scoffe, Nehemiah prayeth and continueth the worke.
7 Vnderstanding the wrath and secrets of the enemy, hee setteth a
watch.
13 Hee armeth the labourers,
19 and giueth military p...
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So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the
guard which followed me, all those of Nehemiah's immediate family,
together with his attendants, NONE OF US PUT OFF OUR CLOTHES, SAVI...
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Nehemiah's Precautions...
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DECISION IN THE FACE OF OPPOSITION
(vv. 1-23)
The diligent labor of the Jews drew out more bitter anger on the part
of the enemy. Sanballat was furious and resorted to the moral weakness
of mockery,...
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SAVING THAT EVERY ONE PUT THEM OFF FOR WASHING:
Or, every one with with his weapon for water...
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16-23 We must watch always against spiritual enemies, and not expect
that our warfare will be over till our work is ended. The word of God
is the sword of the Spirit, which we ought to have always at...
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NONE OF US PUT OFF OUR CLOTHES; neither by day, nor by night, as the
manner is when we go to bed; they constantly kept themselves in a
readiness for fighting. SAVING THAT EVERY ONE PUT THEM OFF FOR
WA...
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Nehemiah 4:23 neither H587 brethren H251 servants H5288 men H582 guard
H4929 followed H310 off H6584 (H8802) clothes...
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NEHEMIAH'S PROVISION FOR THE DEFENCE OF THE BUILDERS (NEHEMIAH 4:16).
Nehemiah now called on his own specialist troops, fully armed with
mail and shields, to act as a protective force for Jerusalem. T...
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SANBALLAT AND HIS ALLIES DETERMINE VIOLENCE AGAINST THE BUILDERS OF
THE WALLS WITH THE AIM OF PREVENTING THEIR COMPLETION ONLY TO BE
THWARTED BY NEHEMIAH'S PRECAUTIONS (NEHEMIAH 4:7).
Their derision h...
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CONTENTS: Opposition by ridicule, anger and discouragement.
CHARACTERS: God, Nehemiah, Sanballat, Tobiah.
CONCLUSION: God's people are often a despised people, loaded with
contempt, but the reproach...
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Nehemiah 4:2. _He spake before his brethren;_ that is, before Tobias,
&c. his brother governors, and other great officers whom he had
convened for counsel against the Jews.
Nehemiah 4:5. _Let not thei...
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NEHEMIAH 4:1 Opposition Intensifies, but the People Continue
Watchfully. While the building continues, Sanballat and his allies
resort to direct action in order to stop it, but their plot is foiled....
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NEHEMIAH—NOTE ON NEHEMIAH 4:21 They worked on the wall in the day
and guarded the city at night. By not taking OFF their CLOTHES, they
remained ready to engage the enemy....
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EXPLANATORY NOTES.] Nehemiah 4:1 are in the Hebrew v. 33–38 of chap.
Nehemiah 3:1
NEHEMIAH 4:1. SANBALLAT] See on chap. Nehemiah 2:10. That
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EXPOSITION
NEHEMIAH 4:7
IT CAME TO PASS, THAT WHEN SANBALLAT, AND TOBIAH, at Samaria, AND THE
ARABIANS, AND THE AMMONITES, AND THE ASHDODITES, in their respective
residences, HEARD THAT THE WALLS OF...
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Now it came to pass, when [this antagonist] Sanballat [and Tobiah]
learned that they had started building the wall, they were very angry,
and they began to mock the Jews (Nehemiah 4:1).
And they gath...
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1 Corinthians 15:10; Judges 5:11; Judges 9:48; Nehemiah 5:16; Nehe
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Washing — When they were to wash and cleanse themselves from some
impurity, which might befal them or their garments....