Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Nehemiah 6:4
Four times, &c. — We must never be overcome by the greatest importunity, to do anything ill or imprudent: but when we are attacked with the same temptation, still resist it with the same reason and resolution.
Four times, &c. — We must never be overcome by the greatest importunity, to do anything ill or imprudent: but when we are attacked with the same temptation, still resist it with the same reason and resolution.
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 ...
NEHEMIAH'S ENEMIES MAKE A FURTHER ATTEMPT TO FRUSTRATE HIS WORK. The narrative about the rebuilding of the walls, which was broken by ch. 5, is here taken up again. Sanballat and his confederates seek...
FOUR TIMES. The enemy takes no denial. AFTER THE SAME MANNER. The only sure and safe procedure. Compare 1 Samuel 17:30....
_yet_ R.V. AND. The A.V. suggests the thought which the copula does not express, that in spite of such a rebuff Sanballat and his companions were not daunted. _after this sort … after the same manner_...
DISCOURSE: 442 NEHEMIAH’S FIRMNESS Nehemiah 6:3. _I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down...
TEXT AND VERSE-BY-VERSE COMMENT F. The enemies resort to tactics of diversion, but the wall is completed. 1. Sanballat and Geshem plot treachery through invitation to a conference. TEXT, NEHEMIAH 6:...
_AND I SENT MESSENGERS UNTO THEM, SAYING, I AM DOING A GREAT WORK, SO THAT I CANNOT COME DOWN: WHY SHOULD THE WORK CEASE, WHILST I LEAVE IT, AND COME DOWN TO YOU?_ No JFB commentary on these verses....
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....
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...
Nehemiah had solved the problem that caused the poor people to complain. The people had built the wall, but they had not finished the gates. But the enemies of the people did not give up. They still t...
וַ יִּשְׁלְח֥וּ אֵלַ֛י כַּ † דָּבָ֥ר הַ...
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...
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...
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...
(1) В¶ Now it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall, and that there was no breach left therein; (though at th...
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...
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...
Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner. Ver. 4. _Yet they sent unto me four times_] As thinking to prevail by their importunity. This wicked men h...
_Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort_ We must never be overcome by the greatest importunity to do any thing ill or imprudent: but when we are attacked with the same temptation, still resi...
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...
Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort, hoping to wear down his resistance by their persistent efforts; AND I ANSWERED THEM AFTER THE SAME MANNER, for he was too shrewd to fall into the trap...
THE ENMITY OF SANBALLAT...
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...
1-9 Let those who are tempted to idle merry meetings by vain companions, thus answer the temptation, We have work to do, and must not neglect it. We must never suffer ourselves to be overcome, by rep...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Nehemiah 6:4 sent H7971 (H8799) message H1697 four H702 times H6471 answered H7725 (H8686) manner H1697...
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...
JUDAH'S ADVERSARIES LEARN THAT THE WALL IS COMPLETED APART FROM THE GATEWAYS (NEHEMIAH 6:1). Nehemiah 6:1 ‘Now it came about, when it was reported to Sanballat and Tobiah, and to Geshem the Arabian,...
Nehemiah 6:3 Nehemiah's work was not the building of the altar, not the completing of the Temple; his work was the building up of the walls of Jerusalem, building up the wall round about and setting...
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...
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...
_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...
NEHEMIAH 6:1 A Conspiracy against Nehemiah, but the Wall Is Finished. Nehemiah’s enemies try to scare him into ceasing the work, but he is not deterred and the wall is finished. ⇐...
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...
EXPOSITION SECRET PROCEEDINGS OF SANBALLAT AND HIS FRIENDS TO HINDER THE BUILDING OF THE WALL, AND THEIR FAILURE. THE WALL COMPLETED ...
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...
1 Corinthians 15:58; Galatians 2:5; Judges 16:10; Judges 16:15;...