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Noadiah is not elsewhere mentioned. The examples of Miriam, Deborah,
Huldah, and Anna, show that the prophetical gift was occasionally
bestowed upon women (2 Kings 22:14 note)....
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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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A FURTHER ATTEMPT TO ENTRAP NEHEMIAH. This section is very compressed;
important links in the narrative are wanting, so that it is impossible
to grasp the details of what happened. The general sense,...
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THINK. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ Compare Nehemiah 5:19....
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_My God, think thou upon_ R.V. REMEMBER, O MY GOD. Tobiah's name
stands before Sanballat's. Cf. Nehemiah 6:12.
_and on the prophetess_ R.V. AND ALSO THE PROPHETESS. Noadiah's name
only occurs here. We...
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3. Tobiah tries his hand at discrediting Nehemiah.
TEXT, NEHEMIAH 6:10-14
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And when I entered the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah, son of
Mehetabel, who was confined at home, he said, Let us...
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_MY GOD, THINK THOU UPON TOBIAH AND SANBALLAT ACCORDING TO THESE THEIR
WORKS, AND ON THE PROPHETESS NOADIAH, AND THE REST OF THE PROPHETS,
THAT WOULD HAVE PUT ME IN FEAR._
My God, think thou ... and...
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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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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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THINK THOU UPON TOBIAH. — This appeal to God is to be understood as
an official prophetic prayer. Nehemiah puts God’s own cause into
God’s own hands. The mention of the name of Noadiah, nowhere else
r...
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זָכְרָ֧ה אֱלֹהַ֛י לְ טֹובִיָּ֥ה וּ לְ
סַנְבַל
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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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My God, think thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their
works, and on the (g) prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the
prophets, that would have put me in fear.
(g) Grief caused him to p...
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_Prophet. Hebrew, "the prophetess." (Calmet) --- Protestants, "My God,
think thou upon Tobiah,...and on the prophetess Noadiah."_...
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(14) My God, think thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat according to these
their works, and on the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the
prophets, that would have put me in fear.
Observe how the open or s...
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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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My God, think thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their
works, and on the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets,
that would have put me in fear.
Ver. 14. _My God, think upon...
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_My God, think thou upon Tobiah_, &c. Thou knowest their hearts, and
art the avenger of falsehood and wrong; take cognizance of this cause,
judge between me and them, and take what way and time thou p...
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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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My God, think Thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their
works, to execute His vengeance upon them, AND ON THE PROPHETESS
NOADIAH, another of the false prophets who had been bribed to hin...
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SHEMAIAH, THE FALSE PROPHET...
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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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10-14 The greatest mischief our enemies can do us, is, to frighten us
from our duty, and to lead us to do what is sinful. Let us never
decline a good work, never do a bad one. We ought to try all adv...
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THE PROPHETESS NOADIAH; one that falsely pretended to the Spirit of
prophecy, to deceive and destroy Nehemiah. He prays to God to remember
and punish these false prophets, because he was not yet in a...
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Nehemiah 6:14 God H430 remember H2142 (H8798) Tobiah H2900 Sanballat
H5571 works H4639 prophetess H5031 Noadiah H5129
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Nehemiah 6:10
‘And I went to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of
Mehetabel, who was shut up. And he said,
“Let us meet together in the house of God,
Within the temple,
And let us s...
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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 6:14 REMEMBER. See note on 5:19; compare
Nehemiah 1:8....
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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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1 John 5:16; 1 Kings 22:22; 2 Timothy 3:8; 2 Timothy 4:14; 2 Ti
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My God, &c. — This prayer we are not to imitate....