Nehemiah 6:1
UPON THE GATES - Rather, “in the gates.” This work would naturally be delayed until the last phase.... [ Continue Reading ]
UPON THE GATES - Rather, “in the gates.” This work would naturally be delayed until the last phase.... [ Continue Reading ]
The choice made of Ono, on the skirts of Benjamin, 25 or 30 miles from Jerusalem, as the meeting-place, was, no doubt, in order to draw Nehemiah to a distance from his supporters, that so an attack might be made on him with a better chance of success.... [ Continue Reading ]
The letter was “open,” in order that the contents might be generally known, and that the Jews, alarmed at the threats contained in it, might refuse to continue the work.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHO WAS SHUT UP - On account, probably, of some legal uncleaness. Compare Jeremiah 36:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
WOULD GO INTO THE TEMPLE TO SAVE HIS LIFE - Rather “could go into the temple and live.” For a layman to enter the sanctuary was a capital offence (see Numbers 18:7).... [ Continue Reading ]
The existence of a party among the Jews who sided with Sanballat and lent themselves to his schemes, is here for the first time indicated. Compare Nehemiah 6:14, Nehemiah 6:17; Nehemiah 13:4, Nehemiah 13:28.... [ Continue Reading ]
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).... [ Continue Reading ]
ELUL - The sixth month, corresponding to the latter part of August and the beginning of September. IN FIFTY AND TWO DAYS - Josephus states that the repairs of the wall occupied two years and four months. But Nehemiah’s narrative is thoroughly consistent with itself, and contains in it nothing that... [ Continue Reading ]
Though Tobiah is called “the servant” or “slave” Nehemiah 2:10, Nehemiah 2:19, and was perhaps a bought slave of Sanballat’s, yet he was in such a position that Jewish nobles readily contracted affinity with him. This is quite in harmony with the practice of the East, where slaves often fill high po... [ Continue Reading ]