Nehemiah 7:4
What meaning of the nehemiah 7:4 in the Bible?
What does Nehemiah 7:4 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Now the city was largea and great: but the people were few therein, and the houses were not builded."
What does Nehemiah 7:4 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Now the city was largea and great: but the people were few therein, and the houses were not builded."
Verse Nehemiah 7:4. _THE HOUSES WERE NOT BUILDED._] The city was not yet rebuilt, only a row of houses in the inside of the wall all round....
THE PEOPLE WERE FEW - The number of those who returned with Zerubbabel was no more than 42,360 Nehemiah 7:66. Less than 2,000 people had come with Ezra Ezra 8:1....
CHAPTER 7 _ 1. Provisions made for the defense of the city (Nehemiah 7:1)_ 2. The genealogy (Nehemiah 7:5) 3. Their whole number (Nehemiah 7:66) 4. The gifts for the work (Nehemiah 7:70) Nehemiah...
NEHEMIAH'S PRECAUTIONS FOR GUARDING THE CITY FROM SUDDEN ATTACK. The internal intrigues just referred to (Nehemiah 6:17) necessitated constant vigilance on the part of Nehemiah; his measures are descr...
LARGE AND GREAT. wide, or open, and large. FEW THEREIN. This could not have been said if Zerubbabel had already returned with nearly 50,000 people (Ezra 2:64). THE HOUSES WERE NOT BUILDED. no sign of...
_large and great_ R.V. WIDE AND LARGE. The phrase rendered -wide" (cf. Genesis 34:21; Judges 18:10) denotes extension on every side; its literal rendering would be -wide on both hands." _the people_we...
TEXT AND VERSE-BY-VERSE COMMENT G. Nehemiah finds the list of the first exiles to return. 1. Nehemiah makes arrangements for the continued defense and administration of the city. TEXT, NEHEMIAH 7:1-...
_NOW THE CITY WAS LARGE AND GREAT: BUT THE PEOPLE WERE FEW THEREIN, AND THE HOUSES WERE NOT BUILDED._ Now the city was large and great. The walls being evidently built on the old foundations, the cit...
A LIST OF THOSE WHO RETURNED FROM BABYLON WITH ZERUBBABEL 2. Hanani] after carrying information to Nehemiah respecting the condition of JERUSALEM (Nehemiah 1:2), he must have returned with him to Jud...
THE *JEWS BUILD JERUSALEM’S CITY WALL AGAIN NEHEMIAH _ROBERT BRYCE AND ROBERT BETTS_ CHAPTER 7 V1 So we had finished the construction of the wall. And I had put the doors in place. We had appoint...
VII. (1-4) Measures were taken for the security of the city, now made a complete fortress. The comparative thinness of the population taxed the governor’s resources, and the result appears at a later...
וְ הָ עִ֞יר רַחֲבַ֤ת יָדַ֨יִם֙ וּ גְדֹולָ֔ה וְ הָ עָ֥ם מְעַ֖ט בְּ תֹוכָ֑הּ וְ...
36-73, PUBLIC-SPIRITED CITIZENS Nehemiah 7:1 It is probable that Nehemiah returned to the Persian court on the completion of the first part of his enterprise, the building of the walls, and that he l...
At last the wall was completed by setting up the doors, and placing in order porters, singers, and Levites. In the first few verses of this chapter we have an account of the arrangements for the safet...
_Not built, sufficient for so great a multitude. (Calmet) --- They lodged under tents, or in huts. (Haydock)_...
(1) В¶ Now it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed, (2) That I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the rul...
The Joy of the Lord I. INTRODUCTION A. Chapter's 7 & 8 begin the "second phase" in the book of Nehemiah. 1. This "second phase" is the re-instruction of God's people - of the laws of Moses. 2. The...
God blesses the labours of the faithful Nehemiah, and Jerusalem is once more encompassed by walls; a less touching condition than when the city of God was defended by the altar of God, which was a tes...
Now the city [was] large and great: but the people [were] few therein, and the houses [were] not builded. Ver. 4. _Now the city was large_] Heb. Broad in spans or spaces. _ And great_] Yet nothing s...
_The houses were not builded_ That is, not all, nor completely built; but only some slight buildings of boards or stones were erected, for the present use of the generality of the people....
[WHO RETURNED FROM BABYLON TO IERUSALEM.] 1 Nehemiah committeth the charge of Ierusalem to Hanani and Hananiah. 5 A register of the genealogie of them which came at the first out of Babylon, 9 of t...
THE CHARGE OF THE CITY...
APPOINTMENTS MADE IN THE CITY (vv. 1-3) The wall of separation having been built and the doors hung in the gates, then appointments consistent with this separation were made (v. 1). Gatekeepers are...
LARGE: _ Heb._ broad in spaces...
1-4 Nehemiah, having finished the wall, returned to the Persian court, and came to Jerusalem again with a new commission. The public safety depends on every one's care to guard himself and his family...
i.e. Not all, nor completely built; but only some slight buildings of boards or stones were made for the present use of the generality of the people....
Nehemiah 7:4 city H5892 large H7342 H3027 spacious H1419 people H5971 it H8432 few H4592 houses H1004 rebuilt H1129 (H8803) the houses - Isaiah 58:12; Haggai 1:4-6; Matthew 6:33...
THE REASON FOR THE DISCOVERY OF THE LIST (NEHEMIAH 7:4). Nehemiah 7:4 ‘Now the city was wide and large, but the people in it were few, and the houses were not built.' The walls having been complete...
CONTENTS: Jerusalem put in charge of Hanani and Hananiah. Genealogy of the first remnant. CHARACTERS: God, Nehemiah, Hanani, Hananiah. CONCLUSION: Those who fear God will evidence it by being faithf...
Nehemiah 7:2. _I gave my brother Hanani,_ probably his eldest brother, who had come to Shushan to represent the injuries sustained by the Jews, from the governor in Samaria: Nehemiah 1:2. _And Hanania...
_Now it came to pass, when the wall was built._ THE GUARDIAN OF THE HOLY CITY I. His care for Jerusalem’s protection. It is a beneficent law of our nature that the more true affection is exercised it...
NEHEMIAH—NOTE ON NEHEMIAH 7:4 Apparently the people are relatively FEW. Building HOUSES has taken second place to reconstructing the walls. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); fo...
EXPLANATORY NOTES.] “The second section of this book (chaps. 7–12:43) furnishes a description of the further efforts of Nehemiah to increase and insure the prosperity of the community in Judah and Jer...
EXPOSITION COMPLETION OF THE WORK, AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR GUARDING THE GATES (Nehemiah 7:1). The wall and gate-towers being completed, nothing remained but to hang the doors in the gateways, and to arra...
Now in chapter 7: It came to pass, when the wall was built, and the doors, the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed, that he gave his brother Hanani (Nehemiah 7:1-2), Now this is t...
Haggai 1:4; Isaiah 58:12; Matthew 6:33...