Nehemiah 6:17 - Exposition

Moreover in those days . Ewald supposes that the circumstances here related ( Nehemiah 6:17-19 ) were subsequent to the completion of the wall; but the expression "in those days" seems rather to throw back the events into the time during which the wall was in building. The passage is a sort of explanatory note, showing us how Tobiah came to be able to raise those intrigues inside Jerusalem which have been mentioned in Nehemiah 6:12-14 . And the letters of Tobiah came unto them . Rather, "and many were the letters of Tobiah which came to them."