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 tried to stop the work. Sanballat and his friends sent messages to Nehemiah. They invited him to mee... [ Continue Reading ]
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. There were no gaps in it, but I had not yet put the doors in the gates. V2 Sanballat and Geshem s... [ Continue Reading ]
Sanballat sent another message to Nehemiah. It was a letter, but Sanballat did not close it. It was open so that anyone could read it. Sanballat did not want this letter to be secret. He wanted all the people to know what he had written. In the letter, he pretended to be the friend of Nehemiah, but... [ Continue Reading ]
One day Nehemiah went to visit Shemaiah. Shemaiah may have been a priest (Ezra 2:60; Nehemiah 10:8). We do not know why Nehemiah visited him. Perhaps Nehemiah wanted Shemaiah to pray with him. Nehemiah thought that he could trust Shemaiah. It seems that Shemaiah was a *prophet (see verses 12 and 14... [ Continue Reading ]
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 even the enemies of the *Jews knew that God had helped the people to build the walls. So the nation... [ Continue Reading ]
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 and his son had both married women from *Judah. Tobiah was also a relative of Eliashib the priest (Ne... [ Continue Reading ]