Who was shut up] perhaps meaning 'ceremonially unclean': cp. Jeremiah 36:5. Shemaiah probably hoped that Nehemiah would conclude that only for the most urgent reasons would he under such circumstances make the proposal described. Within the temple] i.e. to seek asylum there (as Joab fled to the tent of the Lord, 1 Kings 2:28).
11. Being as I am] Only the priests might enter the Temple buildings.
Verse Nehemiah 6:10. _WHO_ WAS _SHUT UP_] Lived in a sequestered, solitary state; pretending to sanctity, and to close intercourse with God. _LET US MEET TOGETHER IN THE HOUSE OF GOD_] The meaning i...
WHO WAS SHUT UP - On account, probably, of some legal uncleaness. Compare Jeremiah 36:5....
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 ...
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,...
SHEMAIAH.. professed friend, but. false prophet. See Nehemiah 6:12. SHUT UP. confined, as in prison. Hebrew. _'azar._ See Jeremiah 33:1; Jeremiah 36:5. THE HOUSE OF GOD. This must have been. tempora
Dangers from within: False Prophets (Nehemiah 6:10-14) 10. _Afterward I came_ R.V. AND I WENT. There is no note of time expressed. _Shemaiah the son of Delaiah_ Not otherwise known; apparently a prie...
IN THE HOUSE OF GOD, WITHIN THE TEMPLE— Hereby is meant the _sanctuary._ Shemaiah had a good pretence to advise Nehemiah to retreat thither, because it was both a strong and a sacred place; being defe...
3. Tobiah tries his hand at discrediting Nehemiah. TEXT, NEHEMIAH 6:10-14 10 And when I entered the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah, son of Mehetabel, who was confined at home, he said, Let us...
_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 DO...
6:10 night (b-56) Or 'to-night.'...
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...
One day Nehemiah went to visit Shemaiah. Shemaiah may have been a priest (Ezra 2:60; Nehemiah 10:8). We do not know why Nehemiah visited him. Perhaps Nehemiah wanted Shemaiah to pray with him. Nehemia...
I CAME UNTO THE HOUSE. — As a specimen of another kind of attack, through false prophets, Shemaiah’s plot is mentioned. This man — probably a priest — Nehemiah found shut up in his house; probably he...
וַ אֲנִי ־בָ֗אתִי בֵּ֣ית שְֽׁמַֽעְיָ֧ה בֶן ־ד
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...
Afterward I came unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabeel, who [was] (e) shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut t...
_Went, being invited. (Tirinus) --- Semaia, of the twenty-third course of priests, 1 Paralipomenon xxiv. 18. (Menochius) --- Privately. Hebrew, "who was shut up," like a recluse, (Haydock) to deceive...
(10) В¶ 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...
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...
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 d...
_I came into the house of Shemaiah_ Who was a pretended prophet, as appears from Nehemiah 6:12, and taken by Nehemiah for his friend, who therefore went to advise and consult with him at his house. _W...
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...
SHEMAIAH, THE FALSE PROPHET...
Afterward I came unto the house of Shemaiah, the son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabeel, a man who claimed the gift of prophecy for himself, WHO WAS SHUT UP, probably in performance of a vow; and he sa...
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...
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...
SHEMAIAH THE SON OF DELAIAH; probably one of the chief of the priests, 1 CHRONICLES 24:26. WHO WAS SHUT UP in his chamber adjoining to the temple, upon pretence of singular devotion, sequestration fro...
Nehemiah 6:10 came H935 (H8804) house H1004 Shemaiah H8098 son H1121 Delaiah H1806 son H1121 Mehetabel H4105 inform
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...
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...
_Should such a man as I flee?_ PANIC I. PANIC. Unreasoning, helpless fright. 1. National panic. 2. Business panic. 3. Personal panic. 4. Spiritual panic, II. The effect of panic. All of these fo...
_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...
NEHEMIAH—NOTE ON NEHEMIAH 6:10 SHEMAIAH is not otherwise known, but he may have been a priest, which explains his proposal for a meeting in the temple (perhaps a second meeting from the one mentioned...
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 Kings 6:5; 2 Chronicles 28:24; 2 Chronicles 29:3; 2 Chronicles 29:7;...
Shut up — In his chamber adjoining to the temple, upon pretence of singular devotion, and communion with God, and withal upon pretence of certain knowledge, by the Spirit of God concerning their appro...