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Verse Nehemiah 6:18. _HE WAS THE SON-IN-LAW OF SHECHANIAH_]
Previously to the coming of Nehemiah, the Jews seemed to be fast
intermixing with the heathen, by _intermarriages_ with _Ashdodites,
Ammoni...
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Though Tobiah is called “the servant” or “slave” Nehemiah
2:10, Nehemiah 2:19, and was perhaps a bought slave of Sanballat’s,
yet he was in such a position that Jewish nobles readily contracted
affini...
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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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SON IN LAW. Connected also with. high priest Eliashib Compare Nehemiah
13:4.
MESHULLAM. Compare Nehemiah 3:4; Nehemiah 3:30....
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_sworn unto him, because he_was _the son in law of_, &c. -Sworn unto
him." LXX. ἔνορκοι … αὐτῷ. It is implied that Tobiah's
connexion by marriage ensured him the support of many leading Jews;
the conj...
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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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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.
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And it came about...
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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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ARAB.. MESHULLAM] see Ezra 2:5; Nehemiah 3:4....
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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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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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(17-19) A supplementary account is here introduced, explaining the
intrigues within Jerusalem to which reference has been made....
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SWORN UNTO HIM. — Shechaniah was of the family of Arah, which had
come over with Zerubbabel (Ezra 2:5). Tobiah had married his daughter,
and Tobiah’s son had married a daughter of Meshullam, one of th...
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כִּי ־רַבִּ֣ים בִּֽ יהוּדָ֗ה
בַּעֲלֵ֤י שְׁבוּעָה֙...
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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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_Mosollam, one of the builders, chap. iii. 4. (Menochius) --- These
two powerful men had consequently acted contrary to the laws of God,
and the covenant of Esdras, with respect to marriages. They mig...
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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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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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For [there were] many in Judah sworn unto him, because he [was] the
son in law of Shechaniah the son of Arah; and his son Johanan had
taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah.
Ver. 18. _F...
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_The nobles of Judah sent many letters unto Tobiah_ Corresponding with
him against Nehemiah, and against their own city and nation. So that,
added to all the other wickedness of this people, there wer...
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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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For there were many in Judah sworn unto him, because he was the
son-in-law of Shechaniah, the son of Arah; and his son Johanan had
taken the daughter of Meshullam, the son of Berechiah, the evil of
mi...
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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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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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SWORN UNTO HIM, to be true to him in the prosecution of his wicked
designs. HIS SON HAD TAKEN THE DAUGHTER OF MESHULLAM: this is noted to
show the mischief of such unequal and forbidden marriages, and...
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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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_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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NEHEMIAH—NOTE ON NEHEMIAH 6:18 BOUND BY OATH TO HIM. It is not clear
how they were bound. But there was clearly a powerful group in
Jerusalem committed to Tobiah and opposed to Nehemiah....
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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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Ezra 2:5; Nehemiah 3:30; Nehemiah 3:4; Nehemiah 7:10...