Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Nehemiah 6:1
Upon the gates - Rather, “in the gates.” This work would naturally be delayed until the last phase.
Upon the gates - Rather, “in the gates.” This work would naturally be delayed until the last phase.
CHAPTER VI _Sanballat, Tobiah, and Geshem, insidiously desire a conference_ _with Nehemiah, which he refuses_, 1-4. _They then charge him with the design of rebelling, and causing_ _himself to be...
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...
SANBALLATIN TOBIAH. See notes on Nehemiah 2:19; Nehemiah 4:7. AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton_ (App-6), for emphasis. GESHEM. Another spelling in Sanballat's letter (Nehemiah 6:6), Gashm...
_when S.… and the rest of our enemies, heard_ R.V. WHEN IT WAS REPORTED TO S.…, AND UNTO THE REST OF OUR ENEMIES. The R.V. is more literal; the passive verb -to be reported" occurs in Nehemiah 6:6-7,...
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:...
_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 THAT TIM...
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....
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...
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...
AND THE REST OF OUR ENEMIES. — The Three always have the pre-eminence. THE DOORS UPON THE GATES. — _Within the gates._ This parenthesis is a note of historical accuracy, and intimates that what had b...
וַ יְהִ֣י כַ אֲשֶׁ֣ר נִשְׁמַ֣ע לְ סַנְבַלַּ֣ט
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...
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 (a) breach left therein; (though at tha...
(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...
CONTENTS We have revived here the persecution of Sanballat against the church. The work, however, is completed. A secret correspondence is carried on between Tobiah and some of the nobles of Judah....
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...
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 that ti...
_ I had not set up the doors_ Not all of them. _Come, let us meet together_ To consult about the common service of our master the king of Persia, or to make a friendly accommodation. _In one of the vi...
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...
THE ENMITY OF SANBALLAT...
Now it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, the same men who had tried to make trouble before, Nehemiah 2:10; Nehemiah 4:1, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had bu...
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...
NEHEMIAH CHAPTER 6 Sanballat and Tobiah, sending to Nehemiah to meet them, intend to do him mischief, NEHEMIAH 6:1,2. Nehemiah's answer, NEHEMIAH 6:3. They charge him with rebellion, NEHEMIAH 6:4. His...
Nehemiah 6:1 Sanballat H5571 Tobiah H2900 Geshem H1654 Arab H6163 rest H3499 enemies H341 (H8802) heard H8085 ...
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,...
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...
Daniel 9:25; Nehemiah 2:10; Nehemiah 2:19; Nehemiah 3:1; Nehemiah 3:3;...
The doors — Not all of them....