The finishing of the wall is recorded in the implest manner: first, with a formal specification of the date and time; then in its effect upon the enemies, and as redounding to the glory of God.
Verse 15. _THE TWENTY AND FIFTH - OF - ELUL_] This Jewish month answers to a part of our _August_ and _September_. _FIFTY AND TWO DAYS._] I see no difficulty in supposing that several thousand workm...
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 mont...
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 ...
THE REBUILDING OF THE WALL IS COMPLETED. TOBIAH'S FRIENDS IN JUDAH. Nehemiah 6:15. Elul: = August approximately. The rebuilding of the walls was completed in 444 B.C., having taken fifty-two days. Ne...
FIFTY AND TWO DAYS. If finished on twenty-fifth Elul, and work took fifty-two days, it must have been commenced on third of Ab (fifth month). Work rapid, because all materials there: and God's good ha...
The Completion of the Wall (Nehemiah 6:15); and the impression produced (Nehemiah 6:16): treasonable correspondence (Nehemiah 6:17-19) 15. _Elul_ This month, which is the same as the Assyrian U-lu-lu,...
DISCOURSE: 444 THE EXPEDITION WITH WHICH THE WALL OF JERUSALEM WAS BUILT Nehemiah 6:15. _So the wall was finished …in fifty and two days_. A MERE historic record of the time occupied in rebuilding th...
THE WALL WAS FINISHED—IN FIFTY-AND-TWO DAYS— How long Nehemiah was in finishing the walls of Jerusalem, interpreters are not agreed; because some of them, supposing the space of two-and-fifty days, he...
4. Success is achieved in spite of some differences with Tobiah. TEXT, NEHEMIAH 6:15-19 15 So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth of the month Elul, in fifty-two days. 16 And it came about...
ELUL] The 6th month (August-September) of 445 b.c....
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....
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...
Although their enemies tried to stop the work, the people built the walls of Jerusalem in just 52 days. The people had worked very hard. Nehemiah always knew that the *Jews were doing God’s work. Now...
וַ תִּשְׁלַם֙ הַֽ חֹומָ֔ה בְּ עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וַ
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...
So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth [day] of [the month] (h) Elul, in (i) fifty and two days. (h) Which was the sixth month and contained part of August, and part of September. (i) Afte...
Elul, the last of the civil year, corresponding with our August and September, when the walls were dedicated, chap. xii. 27. --- Days. Josephus ([Antiquities?] xi. 5.) says, "two years and three (Gree...
(15) В¶ So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days. See what a short work was made of it when the hand of the Lord was upon them, and with them. So...
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...
So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth [day] of [the month] Elul, in fifty and two days. Ver. 15. _So the wall was finished_] Though with much ado, and maugre the malice of all foreign and...
_The wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul_ Answering part to our August and part to September. _In fifty and two days_ To be computed either from the time of Sanballat's sen...
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...
THE WALL COMPLETED...
So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, corresponding roughly to the latter part of August and the greater part of September, IN FIFTY AND TWO DAYS, showing that the bu...
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...
15-19 The wall was begun and finished in fifty-two days, though they rested on the sabbaths. A great deal of work may be done in a little time, if we set about it in earnest, and keep close to it. Se...
THE MONTH ELUL; answering part to our August and part to September. IN FIFTY AND TWO DAYS; to be computed, either, 1. From the time of Sanballat's sending this letter to him; or, 2. As most judge, f...
Nehemiah 6:15 wall H2346 finished H7999 (H8799) twenty-fifth H6242 H2568 Elul H435 fifty-two H2572 H8147 days...
Nehemiah 6:15 ‘So the wall was finished in the twenty fifth (day) of (the month) Elul, in fifty two days.' The wall was completed on the 25th day of Elul (in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes), fifty...
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...
ELUL sixth monththat is, September....
Nehemiah 2:17 ; NEHEMIAH 6:15; NEHEMIAH 12:43 I. Consider the fact of declension, decadence, degeneration, from a Divine type. Of this we have two instances: in Israel and in the Church. (1) Under the...
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...
_So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day. .. in fifty and two days._ FIFTY-TWO DAYS’ WORK Let us make a parable of the story and use the text as a motto of a deeper theme. Fifty-two Sun...
_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 6:15 ELUL was the sixth MONTH (August/September), so it has been less than six months since Nehemiah spoke to the king. they perceived that this work had been ac
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...
Daniel 9:25; Ezra 6:15; Nehemiah 4:1; Nehemiah 4:2; Psalms 1:3...
Elul — Answering part to our August, and part to September....