Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Nehemiah 4:23
Washing — When they were to wash and cleanse themselves from some impurity, which might befal them or their garments.
Washing — When they were to wash and cleanse themselves from some impurity, which might befal them or their garments.
Verse Nehemiah 4:23. _NONE OF US PUT OFF OUR CLOTHES, SAVING THAT EVERY ONE_ _PUT THEM OFF FOR WASHING._] The Hebrew for all this is only אין אנחנו פשטים בגדינו איש שלחו המים _ein anachnu poshetim be...
SAVING ... - The text here is probably unsound. It yields no satisfactory sense. See the margin....
CHAPTER 4 _ 1. The indignation and sneers of the enemies (Nehemiah 4:1)_ 2. Nehemiah's ejaculatory prayer (Nehemiah 4:4) 3. Conspiracy, and more prayer (Nehemiah 4:7) 4. Nehemiah's precautions and...
SAMARITAN ATTEMPT TO FRUSTRATE THE BUILDING OF THE WALLS. In Nehemiah 4:2 f. the text is very corrupt, though the general sense of the passage is fairly clear, viz. the Samaritans mock the efforts mad...
THE MEN OF THE GUARD. The Persian guard attached to Nehemiah. NONE OF US, &C. The Hebrew is literally "none of us put off our clothes; each man went with his weapon (or tool) [and his] water".. single...
_my brethren … servants … men of the guard which followed me_ Nehemiah mentions in detail those in whom he had complete confidence and upon whose faithfulness the success of his project depended. Thes...
SAVING THAT EVERY ONE PUT THEM OFF FOR WASHING— _Even for a whole month._ Houbigant. REFLECTIONS.—1st, Never did the cause of God begin to prosper, but the enemies of God began to malign and resist i...
3. Work progresses in the midst of precautions. TEXT, NEHEMIAH 4:15-23 15 And it happened when our enemies heard that it was known to us, and that God had frustrated their plan, then all of us retu...
_SO NEITHER I, NOR MY BRETHREN, NOR MY SERVANTS, NOR THE MEN OF THE GUARD WHICH FOLLOWED ME, NONE OF US PUT OFF OUR CLOTHES, SAVING THAT EVERY ONE PUT THEM OFF FOR WASHING._ None of us put off our cl...
4:23 side. (d-34) Others. '... [in going to] the water;' probably a corrupt reading....
THE MACHINATIONS OF THE ENEMIES OF THE JEWS 1. Sanballat] His irritation at Nehemiah's arrival (Nehemiah 2:10) was increased by the work accomplished by the latter....
MEN OF THE GUARD] i.e. the Persian guard attached to Nehemiah as governor: cp. Nehemiah 2:9. _Saving that_ .. WASHING] RV renders,' every one _went with_ his weapon _to_ the water': whilst others sugg...
So the people continued to work. Some repaired the walls and the rest protected them. They all worked even harder from dawn until nightfall. Even the people who lived outside Jerusalem stayed in the c...
THE *JEWS BUILD JERUSALEM’S CITY WALL AGAIN NEHEMIAH _ROBERT BRYCE AND ROBERT BETTS_ CHAPTER 4 V1 Sanballat heard that we were building the wall again. So he became very angry. He laughed at the...
SAVING THAT EVERY ONE PUT THEM OFF FOR WASHING. — This rendering is very improbable, as the words are simply: “every man his weapon water.” Some interpret that “each man’s weapon was his water”: evide...
_[Nehemiah 4:17]_ וְ אֵ֨ין אֲנִ֜י וְ אַחַ֣י...
Nehemiah 2:19 ON GUARD Nehemiah 2:10; Nehemiah 2:19; Nehemiah 4:1 ALL his arrangements for rebuilding the walls of Jerusale
THE TRIUMPH OF COURAGE AND DEVOTION Nehemiah 4:13 The work of rebuilding the ruins of Zion is typical of our efforts as Christians to counteract the deterioration which is ever at work in our own hea...
As the work proceeded, the opposition of outsiders turned from derision to anger, but rose no higher at the moment than contempt. However, Nehemiah was conscious of the menace of this attitude, and li...
So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of us put off our clothes, [saving that] every one put them off (l) for washing. (l) That is, when the...
_Clothes, even to sleep. --- Only. Septuagint (Complutensian), "man and his arms to the water." (Haydock) --- They went armed to fetch water; (Malvenda) or they had their armour and water always at ha...
(16) В¶ And it came to pass from that time forth, that the half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the habergeons; and...
REFLECTIONS READER! you and I shall derive very sweet improvements from this chapter, if, under the teaching of God the Holy Ghost, we discover our personal interest in it, and amidst all the oppositi...
Fighting and Building I. INTRODUCTION A. Last week in our study of Nehemiah, we saw that no spiritual re-building can be done effectively without first removing the rubbish. 1. Sin makes a lousy fo...
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...
So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of us put off our clothes, [saving that] every one put them off for washing. Ver. 23. _So neither I_]...
_None of us put off our clothes_ Neither by day nor by night, as the manner is when people go to rest, but they constantly kept themselves in readiness to fight, if any assault were made on the city....
1 While the enemies scoffe, Nehemiah prayeth and continueth the worke. 7 Vnderstanding the wrath and secrets of the enemy, hee setteth a watch. 13 Hee armeth the labourers, 19 and giueth military p...
So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard which followed me, all those of Nehemiah's immediate family, together with his attendants, NONE OF US PUT OFF OUR CLOTHES, SAVI...
Nehemiah's Precautions...
DECISION IN THE FACE OF OPPOSITION (vv. 1-23) The diligent labor of the Jews drew out more bitter anger on the part of the enemy. Sanballat was furious and resorted to the moral weakness of mockery,...
SAVING THAT EVERY ONE PUT THEM OFF FOR WASHING: Or, every one with with his weapon for water...
16-23 We must watch always against spiritual enemies, and not expect that our warfare will be over till our work is ended. The word of God is the sword of the Spirit, which we ought to have always at...
NONE OF US PUT OFF OUR CLOTHES; neither by day, nor by night, as the manner is when we go to bed; they constantly kept themselves in a readiness for fighting. SAVING THAT EVERY ONE PUT THEM OFF FOR WA...
Nehemiah 4:23 neither H587 brethren H251 servants H5288 men H582 guard H4929 followed H310 off H6584 (H8802) clothes...
NEHEMIAH'S PROVISION FOR THE DEFENCE OF THE BUILDERS (NEHEMIAH 4:16). Nehemiah now called on his own specialist troops, fully armed with mail and shields, to act as a protective force for Jerusalem. T...
SANBALLAT AND HIS ALLIES DETERMINE VIOLENCE AGAINST THE BUILDERS OF THE WALLS WITH THE AIM OF PREVENTING THEIR COMPLETION ONLY TO BE THWARTED BY NEHEMIAH'S PRECAUTIONS (NEHEMIAH 4:7). Their derision h...
CONTENTS: Opposition by ridicule, anger and discouragement. CHARACTERS: God, Nehemiah, Sanballat, Tobiah. CONCLUSION: God's people are often a despised people, loaded with contempt, but the reproach...
Nehemiah 4:2. _He spake before his brethren;_ that is, before Tobias, &c. his brother governors, and other great officers whom he had convened for counsel against the Jews. Nehemiah 4:5. _Let not thei...
_None of us put off our clothes, saving that every one put them off for washing._ THE NECESSARY AND THE UNNECESSARY Some people waste all their energy in putting off and on their clothes: their whole...
NEHEMIAH 4:1 Opposition Intensifies, but the People Continue Watchfully. While the building continues, Sanballat and his allies resort to direct action in order to stop it, but their plot is foiled....
NEHEMIAH—NOTE ON NEHEMIAH 4:21 They worked on the wall in the day and guarded the city at night. By not taking OFF their CLOTHES, they remained ready to engage the enemy....
EXPLANATORY NOTES.] Nehemiah 4:1 are in the Hebrew v. 33–38 of chap. Nehemiah 3:1 NEHEMIAH 4:1. SANBALLAT] See on chap. Nehemiah 2:10. That
EXPOSITION NEHEMIAH 4:7 IT CAME TO PASS, THAT WHEN SANBALLAT, AND TOBIAH, at Samaria, AND THE ARABIANS, AND THE AMMONITES, AND THE ASHDODITES, in their respective residences, HEARD THAT THE WALLS OF...
Now it came to pass, when [this antagonist] Sanballat [and Tobiah] learned that they had started building the wall, they were very angry, and they began to mock the Jews (Nehemiah 4:1). And they gath...
1 Corinthians 15:10; Judges 5:11; Judges 9:48; Nehemiah 5:16; Nehe