_NOW IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN SANBALLAT, AND TOBIAH, AND GESHEM THE ARABIAN, AND THE REST OF OUR ENEMIES, HEARD THAT I HAD BUILDED THE WALL, AND THAT THERE WAS NO BREACH LEFT THEREIN; (THOUGH AT THAT TIME I HAD NOT SET UP THE DOORS UPON THE GATES;)_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THAT SANBALLAT AND GESHEM SENT UNTO ME, SAYING, COME, LET US MEET TOGETHER IN SOME ONE OF THE VILLAGES IN THE PLAIN OF ONO. BUT THEY THOUGHT TO DO ME MISCHIEF._ Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me. The Samaritan leaders, satisfied that they could not overcome Nehemiah by open arms, resolved to gain... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND I SENT MESSENGERS UNTO THEM, SAYING, I AM DOING A GREAT WORK, SO THAT I CANNOT COME DOWN: WHY SHOULD THE WORK CEASE, WHILST I LEAVE IT, AND COME DOWN TO YOU?_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN SENT SANBALLAT HIS SERVANT UNTO ME IN LIKE MANNER THE FIFTH TIME WITH AN OPEN LETTER IN HIS HAND;_ Then sent Sanballat his servant ... the fifth time with an open letter in his hand, х_ 'IGERET_ (H107) _ PªTUWCHAAH_ (H6605); Septuagint, epistolee aneoogmeneen]. In Western Asia, letters, after... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHEREIN WAS WRITTEN, IT IS REPORTED AMONG THE HEATHEN, AND GASHMU SAITH IT, THAT THOU AND THE JEWS THINK TO REBEL: FOR WHICH CAUSE THOU BUILDEST THE WALL, THAT THOU MAYEST BE THEIR KING, ACCORDING TO THESE WORDS._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AFTERWARD I CAME UNTO THE HOUSE OF SHEMAIAH THE SON OF DELAIAH THE SON OF MEHETABEEL, WHO WAS SHUT UP; AND HE SAID, LET US MEET TOGETHER IN THE HOUSE OF GOD, WITHIN THE TEMPLE, AND LET US SHUT THE DOORS OF THE TEMPLE: FOR THEY WILL COME TO SLAY THEE; YEA, IN THE NIGHT WILL THEY COME TO SLAY THEE._... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND I SAID, SHOULD SUCH A MAN AS I FLEE? AND WHO IS THERE, THAT, BEING AS I AM, WOULD GO INTO THE TEMPLE TO SAVE HIS LIFE? I WILL NOT GO IN._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 on the prophetess Noadiah. [Furst ('Concordance,' sub voce) doubts or rejects the reading, _ HANªBIY... [ Continue Reading ]