Nehemiah 4:6

So we went on building the wall; and all the wall was joined together half-way up: for the people were working hard.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.

In Context

5Let not their wrongdoing be covered or their sin washed away from before you: for they have made you angry before the builders.

7But when it came to the ears of Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabians and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites, that the building of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and the broken places were being made good, they were full of wrath;

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:3And because this house of God is dear to me, I give my private store of gold and silver to the house of my God, in addition to all I have got ready for the holy house;

1 Chronicles 29:17And I am conscious, my God, that you are the searcher of hearts, taking pleasure in righteousness. As for me, with an upright heart I have freely given all these things; and I have seen with joy your people who are here to make their offerings freely to you.

Nehemiah 6:15So the wall was complete on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty-two days.

2 Corinthians 8:16But praise be to God, who puts the same care for you into the heart of Titus.

Hebrews 13:21Make you full of every good work and ready to do all his desires, working in us whatever is pleasing in his eyes through Jesus Christ; and may the glory be given to him for ever and ever. So be it.

Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 4:2-7

The Opposition of Sanballat, &c.. ( b. c. 445.) 1 But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews. 2 And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned? 3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they… Read the whole commentary →

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