Nehemiah 6:15

So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of the month of Elul, after fifty-two days.

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So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.

In Context

14Call to mind Tobiah and Sanballat, my God, and all that they did. Also call to mind the prophetess Noadiah and the rest of the prophets who tried to make me be afraid.

16When all our enemies heard of it, all the nations around us, they became afraid and they fell greatly in their own eyes. For they knew the work was done with the help of our God.

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Cross References

Ezra 6:14So the Jewish elders built and prospered under the teaching of Haggaithe prophet and Zechariah son of Iddo. They completed their buildings according to the decree of the God of Israel and by the decree of Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes the king of Persia.

Nehemiah 4:1Now when Sanballat heard we were building the wall, it burned within him, and he was furiously angry, and he mocked the Jews.

Psalms 147:2Yahweh rebuilds Jerusalem, 1 he gathers together the scattered people of Israel. 1

Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 6:11-15

Shemaiah's Plot Defeated. ( b. c. 445.) 10 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 doors of the temple: for they will come to slay thee; yea, in the night will they come to slay thee. 11 And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being as I am, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in. 12 And, lo, I perceived that God… Read the whole commentary →

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