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Nehemiah 2:6

the queen. Hebrew. ha-shegal. wife. Occurs only here and in Psalms 45:9; Daniel 5:2; Daniel 5:3; Daniel 5:23. Not. Hebrew word, but borrowed from the Akkadian sha. a bride, and gal = great. Used of. foreign queen. Here it would exactly suit "the great bride" or "foreign (Jewish) queen", Esther. (See notes on the Chronological Structure of Ezra-Nehemiah, p. 618.) Esther is introduced here (parenthetically) because of her sympathy and interest, which Nehemiah so greatly needed at this juncture, as Mordecai had needed it before (Esther 4:14).

sitting. Not reclining.

by. close to.

it pleased the king. The fruit of Nehemiah's prayer (Nehemiah 2:4).

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See also Nehemiah 2:6 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Nehemiah 2:6. _THE QUEEN ALSO SITTING BY HIM_] Who probably forwarded his suit. This was not Esther, as Dean Prideaux supposes, nor perhaps the same Artaxerxes who had taken her to be queen; no...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THE QUEEN - Though the Persian kings practiced polygamy, they always had one chief wife, who alone was recognized as “queen.” The chief wife of Longimanus was Damaspia. I SET HIM A TIME - Nehemiah app...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The King's question (Nehemiah 2:1)_ 2. The King's permission (Nehemiah 2:3) 3. The arrival in Jerusalem and the night-ride (Nehemiah 2:9) 4. The resolution to build the wall ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    NEHEMIAH 1:11 B - NEHEMIAH 2:8. NEHEMIAH RECEIVES PERMISSION FROM ARTAXERXES TO GO TO JERUSALEM AND REBUILD THE CITY WALLS. Nehemiah 1:1. the twentieth year of Artaxerxes: 444 B.C. I HAD NOT BEEN AFOR...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _b_ 73 _a_. The Register of those who returned with Zerubbabel = Ezra 2:1-70 _a register of the genealogy_ R.V. THE BOOK. _of them which came up at the first_ The only natural explanation of these wo...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The account is very condensed. Nehemiah's request is favourably received, but only the general results of the conversation are related. The king seems at once to have appointed Nehemiah to be -governo...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND I SET HIM A TIME— How long this was is not certain. It is said, indeed, that he was governor of the land of Judah for twelve years, chap. Nehemiah 5:14 Nehemiah 13:6. But, considering what haste h...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    TEXT AND VERSE-BY-VERSE COMMENTS B. Nehemiah comes to Jerusalem 1. Nehemiah is given permission by Artaxerxes to make the trip. TEXT, NEHEMIAH 2:1-10 1 And it came about in the month Nisan, in the...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND THE KING SAID UNTO ME, (THE QUEEN ALSO SITTING BY HIM,) FOR HOW LONG SHALL THY JOURNEY BE? AND WHEN WILT THOU RETURN? SO IT PLEASED THE KING TO SEND ME; AND I SET HIM A TIME._ The queen also sit...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    NEHEMIAH'S RESOLVE TO REBUILD JERUSALEM This chapter gives an account of Nehemiah's request for leave to rebuild Jerusalem, his arrival there, and his survey of the ruined walls, which it was decided...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    I SET HIM A TIME] Nehemiah's absence seems to have lasted twelve years (Nehemiah 5:14)....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    The king asked Nehemiah what he wanted. This was Nehemiah’s opportunity, so he prayed. But he only had a moment to pray this prayer. Then Nehemiah told the king what he (Nehemiah) wanted to do. He ask...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE *JEWS BUILD JERUSALEM’S CITY WALL AGAIN NEHEMIAH _ROBERT BRYCE AND ROBERT BETTS_ CHAPTER 2 V1 It was the month called Nisan in the 20th year of King Artaxerxes’ rule. I was serving the king w...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    II. (1-8) Nehemiah’s appeal to the king....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE QUEEN ALSO SITTING BY HIM. — Probably Damaspia, the one legitimate queen: _Shegal,_ as in Ps. 14:13, where, however, she stands as in the presenco of her Divine-human Lord. This was not a public f...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּאמֶר֩ לִ֨י הַ מֶּ֜לֶךְ וְ הַ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE PRAYER ANSWERED Nehemiah 2:1 NEHEMIAH'S prayer had commenced on celestial heights of meditation among thoughts of Divine grace and glory, and when it had stooped to earth it had swept over the wi...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    A PATRIOT'S SELF-SACRIFICE Nehemiah 2:1 The seventh month answers to our March or April, so that four months had passed since Nehemiah had set himself to special prayer. Between the king's second que...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Nehemiah's sadness could not wholly be hidden. He had not been habitually a sad man, as he himself declares; but the sorrow of his nation manifested itself as he stood before the king. It has been sug...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    And, &c. In private the queen might dine with her husband, but not in public, Esther i. (Calmet) --- Queen; probably Esther, if she were married to this king. (Menochius) --- But this is uncertain. (H...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (2) Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid, (3) And said unto the king, Let the ki...

  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

    Preparation and Equipment Luke 14:27-31 (NKJV) "And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple. "For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time. Ver. 6. _And the kin...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _The queen also sitting by him_ Which is here noted as an unusual thing, for commonly the kings of Persia dined alone; and perhaps because the queen expressed some kindness to him, and promoted his re...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Artaxerxes vnderstanding the cause of Nehemiahs sadnesse, sendeth him with letters and commission to Ierusalem. 9 Nehemiah, to the griefe of the enemies, commeth to Ierusalem. 12 Hee vieweth secre...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And the king said unto me, (the queen, as some think, Esther, ALSO SITTING BY HIM, this being a private occasion, at which the principal wife of the monarch could be present,) FOR HOW LONG SHALL THY J...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Nehemiah's Request Granted by the King...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    This exercise of Nehemiah continued for four months following the information he received, and finally came to a head in the month Nisan (corresponding to March or April), when Nehemiah was serving wi...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    QUEEN: _ Heb._ wife...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-8 Our prayers must be seconded with serious endeavours, else we mock God. We are not limited to certain moments in our addresses to the King of kings, but have liberty to go to him at all times; ap...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE QUEEN ALSO SITTING BY HIM; which is here noted, partly as an unusual thing; for commonly the kings of Persia dined alone, and their queens seldom dined with them, as historians note; and peradvent...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Nehemiah 2:6 king H4428 said H559 (H8799) queen H7694 sitting H3427 (H8802) him H681) journey H4109 return...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    NEHEMIAH'S SUCCESSFUL APPROACH TO THE KING AND HIS SUBSEQUENT COMMISSION (NEHEMIAH 2:1). Having reached his decision before God Nehemiah now carried it out into practise. He came into the king's pres...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Nehemiah's visit to Jerusalem by permission of Artaxerxes. CHARACTERS: God, Artaxerxes, Nehemiah, Sanballat, Tobiah, Asaph, Geshem. CONCLUSION: The Christian should be concerned in the sor...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Nehemiah 2:1. _Nisan._ See the chronology, Exodus 12. Artaxerxes was well disposed towards the Jews. He had sent Ezra to Jerusalem in the seventh year of his reign; he now sends Nehemiah in the twenti...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And it came to pass in the month Nizan._ DIVINE INTERPOSITION I. Was opportune. 1. That God’s plans are worked out with the utmost precision. 2. That God often interferes on His people’s behalf w...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    NEHEMIAH 2:1 Nehemiah Gains Permission to Return and Inspects Jerusalem’s Walls. Nehemiah is allowed to go to Jerusalem (vv. Nehemiah 2:1). He surveys the walls, finding them in very poor condition (v...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    NEHEMIAH—NOTE ON NEHEMIAH 2:4 The king then invites a request. SO I PRAYED. Nehemiah had already prayed a great deal, of course (see Nehemiah 1:4), but here he prays a

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    EXPLANATORY NOTES.] NEHEMIAH 2:1. NISAN] Called Abib in Exodus 13:4, first month in Hebrew national year. Corresponds to parts of our March and April. NEHEMIAH 2:3. LET THE KING LIVE FOR EVER] (Heb....

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION NEHEMIAH 2:1 IN THE MONTH NISAN. The fourth month after Chisleu, corresponding nearly to our April. How it came about that Nehemiah did not put the king's favour to the proof until more th...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    "You've never been sad in my presence before, what's wrong with you?" And so Nehemiah opened up his heart. Actually, the king had asked him a question and the king discerned. He said, "It's obviously...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Isaiah 58:12; Isaiah 61:4; Isaiah 65:24; Nehemiah 13:6; Nehemiah 5:14

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    REBUILDING THE WALL Nehemiah 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS As we study the Book of Nehemiah we learn the truth of that old saying, "God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform." This was true in...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The queen — Which is here noted, as an unusual thing; for commonly the kings of Persia dined alone, and perhaps because the queen expressed some kindness to him, and promoted his request. How long — T...

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