Nehemiah 4:6

So we rebuilt the wall until it was all connected, reaching half its height, because the people were keen to work.

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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

5Don't forgive their guilt or blot out their sins, for they have made you angry in front of the builders.”

7When Sanballat and Tobiah, and the Arabs, Ammonites, and Ashdodites, heard that the repair to the walls of Jerusalem was progressing and that the gaps were being filled in, they were furious.

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:3More than this, because of my devotion to the house of my God, I'm now giving my personal fortune of gold and silver, in addition to everything that I have provided for this holy house.

1 Chronicles 29:17I know, my God, that you look on the inside and are happy when we live right. Everything I have given willingly and with an honest heart, and now I have seen your people here giving happily and willingly to you.

Nehemiah 6:15The wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul. It took fifty-two days.

2 Corinthians 8:16Thanks be to God that he gave to Titus the same devotion for you that I have.

Hebrews 13:21may he provide you with all that is good so you can do his will. May he work in us, doing everything that pleases him, through Jesus Christ—glory to him forever and ever. Amen.

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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