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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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THE REBUILDING OF THE WALL IS COMPLETED. TOBIAH'S FRIENDS IN JUDAH.
Nehemiah 6:15. Elul: = August approximately. The rebuilding of the
walls was completed in 444 B.C., having taken fifty-two days.
Ne...
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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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_reported … uttered_ R.V. SPOKE OF … REPORTED. The Hebrew gives
the idea of continuous action. They endeavoured to convince Nehemiah
that Tobiah's professions of goodwill were sincere. Perhaps too the...
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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.
16
And it came about...
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6:19 deeds (c-7) Lit. 'kindnesses;' cf. ch. 9.25. Not _ chasidim_ ,
which would be 'pious deeds,' as ch. 13.14. words (d-13) Or 'matters.'...
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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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The *Jews had many enemies while they were building the wall. But even
some of the chief men in *Judah were helping their enemies. Some of
these chief men had promised to be loyal to Tobiah.
Tobiah a...
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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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REPORTED HIS GOOD DEEDS. — Besides the correspondence thus carried
on. these nobles strove to exalt the character of Tobiah to tne
governor, while they made the enemy acquainted with all that went on....
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(17-19) A supplementary account is here introduced, explaining the
intrigues within Jerusalem to which reference has been made....
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גַּ֣ם טֹובֹתָ֗יו הָי֤וּ אֹמְרִים֙ לְ
פָנַ֔י ו
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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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CHAPTER VI....
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(17) Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters unto
Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came unto them. (18) For there were
many in Judah sworn unto him, because he was the son in law...
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REFLECTIONS
IT is hardly possible to read this Chapter, and behold the various
methods which the enemies of Nehemiah made use of to draw him from the
work he had engaged in for God's glory, without im...
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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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_Also, they reported his good deeds before me_ To such a degree of
impudence were they arrived, that they highly commended Tobiah as a
very worthy man in the presence of Nehemiah, who knew so much of...
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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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Also they reported his good deeds before me, in trying to influence
Nehemiah in his favor, AND UTTERED MY WORDS TO HIM, informing the
enemy of all the matters undertaken by. Nehemiah, so that Tobiah w...
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THE WALL COMPLETED...
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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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WORDS:
Or, matters...
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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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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Nehemiah 6:19 reported H559 (H8802) deeds H2896 before H6440 reported
H3318 (H8688) words H1697 Tobiah H2900
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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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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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_Also they reported his good deeds before me._
THE BAD MEN PRAISED
I. Bad men do get praised.
1. Sometimes this praise is real.
2. Sometimes this praise is mistaken.
3. Sometimes this praise is f...
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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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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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1 John 4:5; Acts 4:18; Isaiah 37:10; John 15:19; John 7:7;...