Nehemiah 4:18 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side,e and so builded. And he that sounded the trumpet was by me. ”

Nehemiah 4:18 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 effort...
Nehemiah 4:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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Nehemiah 4:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded. And he that sounded the trumpet was by me.
Nehemiah 4:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows. No JFB commentary on...
Nehemiah 4:18 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Machinations of the Enemies of the Jews 1. Sanballat] His irritation at Nehemiah's arrival ( Nehemiah 2:10 ) was increased by the work accomplished by the latter.
Nehemiah 4:18 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Nehemiah 2:19 ON GUARD Nehemiah 2:10 ; Nehemiah 2:19 ; Nehemiah 4:1-23 ALL his arrangements for rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem show that Nehemiah was awake to the dangers with which he...
Nehemiah 4:18 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Triumph of Courage and Devotion Nehemiah 4:13-23 The work of rebuilding the ruins of Zion is typical of our efforts as Christians to counteract the deterioration which is ever at work in ou...
Nehemiah 4:18 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

As the work proceeded, the opposition of outsiders turned from derision to anger, but rose no higher at the moment than contempt. However, Nehemiah was conscious of the menace of this attitude, and l...
Nehemiah 4:18 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(16) В¶ And it came to pass from that time forth, that the half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the habergeons; and...
Nehemiah 4:18 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

WITH SWORD AND TROWEL ‘The builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded.… So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till t...
Nehemiah 4:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For the builders had everyone his sword girded by his side, and so builded ,.... Thus accoutred he wrought, and was prepared for either service: and he that sounded the trumpet was by me ; to give...
Nehemiah 4:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and [so] builded. And he that sounded the trumpet [was] by me. Ver. 18. For the builders every one had his sword girded by his side ]...
Nehemiah 4:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

He that sounded the trumpet was by me To give the alarm, and call the people together, when and where it was necessary. It appears by this he was continually with them while they wrought upon the w...
Nehemiah 4:18 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

DECISION IN THE FACE OF OPPOSITION (vv. 1-23) The diligent labor of the Jews drew out more bitter anger on the part of the enemy. Sanballat was furious and resorted to the moral weakness of mock...
Nehemiah 4:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Precautions of Nehemiah. B. C. 445. 16 And it came to pass from that time forth, th...
Nehemiah 4:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

To call the people together , when and where it was fit and necessary.
Nehemiah 4:18 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Sanballat And His Allies Determine Violence Against the Builders Of The Walls With The Aim Of Preventing Their Completion Only To Be Thwarted By Nehemiah's Precautions ( Nehemiah 4:7-23 ). Their d...
Nehemiah 4:18 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

EXPLANATORY NOTES.] Nehemiah 4:1-6 are in the Hebrew v. 33–38 of chap. Nehemiah 3:1 Nehemiah 4:1 . Sanballat ] See on chap. Nehemiah 2:10 . That we builded the wall ] That we were building i...
Nehemiah 4:18 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Nehemiah 4:18 , Nehemiah 4:21 The restoration of God's temple by the armed labourers of Nehemiah is a familiar and noble illustration of the restitution of the spiritual temple, "which temple...
Nehemiah 4:18 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Nehemiah 4:1 . 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. It was needful to rebuild the wall of Jerusa...
Nehemiah 4:18 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 . Le...
Nehemiah 4:18 - The Biblical Illustrator

But 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 faith It is w...
Nehemiah 4:18 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Nehemiah 4:7 It came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah , at Samaria, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites , in their respective residences, heard tha...
Nehemiah 4:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Nehemiah's Precautions
Nehemiah 4:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 13:12-17 ; Numbers 10:9
Nehemiah 4:18 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Sounded — To call the people together, when, and where it was necessary.

Nehemiah 4:18 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Nehemiah 4:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Nehemiah 4:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Nehemiah 4:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Nehemiah 4:18 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Nehemiah 4:18 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Nehemiah 4:18 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Nehemiah 4:18 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Nehemiah 4:18 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Nehemiah 4:18 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Nehemiah 4:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Nehemiah 4:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Nehemiah 4:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Nehemiah 4:18 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Nehemiah 4:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Nehemiah 4:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Nehemiah 4:18 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Nehemiah 4:18 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Nehemiah 4:18 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Nehemiah 4:18 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Nehemiah 4:18 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Nehemiah 4:18 - The Biblical Illustrator

Nehemiah 4:18 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Nehemiah 4:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Nehemiah 4:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Nehemiah 4:18 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes