Nehemiah 4:8 KJV

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Nehemiah 4:1-23

Nehemiah 4:1-Isaiah : . Samaritan Attempt to Frustrate the Building of the Walls.— In Nehemiah 4:2 f. the text is very corrupt, though the general sense of the passage is fairly clear, viz. the Samaritans mock the efforts made by the Jews in building the walls; Sanballat’ s wrath in conjunction with his contempt is a little incongruous. The mention of the Samaritan army is difficult to account for; if an army had really been there some attempt would assuredly have been made there and then to... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Nehemiah 4:1-23

EXPLANATORY NOTES.] Nehemiah 4:1-6 are in the Hebrew v. 33–38 of chap. Nehemiah 3:1Nehemiah 4:1. Sanballat] See on chap. Nehemiah 2:10. That we builded the wall] That we were building it (participle expresses not merely resolve, but act of commencing). Mocked] Afraid to use violence. Nehemiah 4:2. Before his brethren] i. e. Tobiah and his brethren in council. The army of Samaria] It is likely that Sanballat had brought an armed force in sight of the city. What do these feeble Jews? &c.]... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Nehemiah 4:1-23

Chapter 4Now it came to pass, when [this antagonist] Sanballat [and Tobiah] learned that they had started building the wall, they were very angry, and they began to mock the Jews ( Nehemiah 4:1 ).And they gathered together the army of the Samaritans who, of course, were already antagonistic toward the Jews. They sought to hinder the work through mockery.What are these feeble Jews trying to do? Tobiah said, If a fox would go up against that wall they're building, he could knock it over (... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Nehemiah 4:1-23

Nehemiah 4:2 . He spake before his brethren; that is, before Tobias, &c. his brother governors, and other great officers whom he had convened for counsel against the Jews. Nehemiah 4:5 . Let not their sin be blotted out. This is a frequent character of prayers in the old testament; but they are the prayers of judges and prophets, and prayers against robbers and murderers, which do not preclude repentance; and I know not that it is wrong to ask the rod for the incorrigible, and to... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Nehemiah 4:7-18

Nehemiah 4:7-18But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobtah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls . . . conspired all of them together.Foes of the faithIt is well we should know our enemies, and then we can better resist them.I. think of those foes of the faith Nehemiah had to withstand.1. There was Noadiah the prophetess. She would have put Nehemiah “in fear.” She used a sacred position and the name of God to cheek the efforts of a good man.... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Nehemiah 4:8

Neh 4:8 And conspired all of them together to come [and] to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it. Ver. 8. And conspired all of them together ] All of them, and together; and yet this was not unity, but conspiracy; such as is that among devils, Mark 5:9 , among Antichristians, Revelation 17:13 , among Turks, who have as little dissension in their religion as any. But well may that garment have no seam that hath no shape. The army of Nineveh was quiet, Nahum 1:12 , no falling out nor... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Nehemiah 4:8

all: Psalms 2:1-Leviticus :, Psalms 83:3-1 Kings :, Isaiah 8:9, Isaiah 8:10, Acts 23:12, Acts 23:13 hinder it: Heb. make an error to it, Jeremiah 20:10 Reciprocal: Ezra 4:4 - troubled Jeremiah 41:10 - to the Daniel 9:25 - wall 1 Corinthians 9:12 - hinder read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Nehemiah 4:8

8. To come… to fight… to hinder None of these purposes, however, seem to have been carried out by the conspiring parties. The Hebrew here for hinder, is, literally to do to it a disturbance. read more