Reported his good deeds. — Besides the correspondence thus carried on. these nobles strove to exalt the character of Tobiah to tne governor, while they made the enemy acquainted with all that went on. This intelligence enabled him to write the disquieting letters which Nehemiah says he was in the habit of receiving.
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 ...
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...
_reported … uttered_ R.V. SPOKE OF … REPORTED. The Hebrew gives the idea of continuous action. They endeavoured to convince Nehemiah that Tobiah's professions of goodwill were sincere. Perhaps too the...
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,...
4. Success is achieved in spite of some differences with Tobiah. TEXT, NEHEMIAH 6:15-19 15 So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth of the month Elul, in fifty-two days. 16 And it came about...
6:19 deeds (c-7) Lit. 'kindnesses;' cf. ch. 9.25. Not _ chasidim_ , which would be 'pious deeds,' as ch. 13.14. words (d-13) Or 'matters.'...
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....
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...
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...
גַּ֣ם טֹובֹתָ֗יו הָי֤וּ אֹמְרִים֙ לְ פָנַ֔י ו
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...
CHAPTER VI....
REFLECTIONS IT is hardly possible to read this Chapter, and behold the various methods which the enemies of Nehemiah made use of to draw him from the work he had engaged in for God's glory, without im...
(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...
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...
Also they reported his good deeds before me, and uttered my words to him. [And] Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear. Ver. 19. _Also they reported his good deeds before me_] Heb. His goodness, as if...
_Also, they reported his good deeds before me_ To such a degree of impudence were they arrived, that they highly commended Tobiah as a very worthy man in the presence of Nehemiah, who knew so much of...
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...
Also they reported his good deeds before me, in trying to influence Nehemiah in his favor, AND UTTERED MY WORDS TO HIM, informing the enemy of all the matters undertaken by. Nehemiah, so that Tobiah w...
THE WALL COMPLETED...
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...
WORDS: Or, matters...
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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Nehemiah 6:19 reported H559 (H8802) deeds H2896 before H6440 reported H3318 (H8688) words H1697 Tobiah H2900
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...
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...
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...
_Also they reported his good deeds before me._ THE BAD MEN PRAISED I. Bad men do get praised. 1. Sometimes this praise is real. 2. Sometimes this praise is mistaken. 3. Sometimes this praise is f...
_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...
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...
1 John 4:5; Acts 4:18; Isaiah 37:10; John 15:19; John 7:7;...