Nehemiah 6:1-19
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
AN OPEN LETTER] in order that its contents might reach and intimidate others.... [ Continue Reading ]
ACCORDING TO THESE WORDS] better, 'and so forth' (and so in Nehemiah 6:7), the quotation from the letter in Nehemiah 6:6 ending with king.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHO _was_ SHUT UP] perhaps meaning 'ceremonially unclean': cp. Jeremiah 36:5. Shemaiah probably hoped that Nehemiah would conclude that only for the most urgent reasons would he under such circumstances make the proposal described. WITHIN THE TEMPLE] i.e. to seek asylum there (as Joab fled to the te... [ Continue Reading ]
ELUL] The 6th month (August-September) of 445 b.c.... [ Continue Reading ]
ARAB.. MESHULLAM] see Ezra 2:5; Nehemiah 3:4.... [ Continue Reading ]