Nehemiah 6:13 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Therefore was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might reproach me. ”

Nehemiah 6:13 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

A further Attempt to Entrap Nehemiah. This section is very compressed; important links in the narrative are wanting, so that it is impossible to grasp the details of what happened. The general sens...
Nehemiah 6:13 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Therefore . to this end. sin. Hebrew. chata '. App-44.
Nehemiah 6:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Therefore was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might reproach me.
Nehemiah 6:13 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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. No JFB commentary on these verses.
Nehemiah 6:13 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Attempts of Sanballat to hinder the completion of the Walls 2. Ono] near Lod ( Ezra 2:33 ), now Kefr Ana, some 25 m. from Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 6:13 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

An evil report. — Nehemiah perceived that not God, but Shemaiah himself, had uttered the prophecy “against me,” and that he was hired to bring the governor into discredit as a violator of law.
Nehemiah 6:13 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

WISE AS SERPENTS Nehemiah 6:1-19 OPEN opposition had totally failed. The watchful garrison had not once permitted a surprise. In spite of the persistent malignity of his enemies, Nehemiah had r...
Nehemiah 6:13 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

a Great Task-A Safeguard from Danger Nehemiah 6:1-19 How often Satan tries to call us off from our work for God! He cannot endure to see us engaged so eagerly on our Master's business and there...
Nehemiah 6:13 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In this chapter we have the account of the continuity of opposition to the work of Nehemiah. It moved, however, on to a new plane. Having begun in contempt, and proceeded through conspiracy, it now a...
Nehemiah 6:13 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(10) В¶ 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 shu...
Nehemiah 6:13 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Therefore was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so , and sin ,.... By distrusting the power and providence of God to protect him, and by going into such a part of the temple, which he, bei...
Nehemiah 6:13 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Therefore [was] he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and [that] they might have [matter] for an evil report, that they might reproach me. Ver. 13. Therefore was he hired, that I...
Nehemiah 6:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

That I should be afraid, and do so, and sin By going into a place forbidden to me, and that in such a manner, which would have been both sinful and shameful. That they might reproach me As a cowa...
Nehemiah 6:13 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

FURTHER SUBTLE OPPOSITION (vv. 1-14) Chapter 5 has been practically a parenthesis in this book, for Nehemiah had to delay the building of the wall in order to deal with serious problems inside....
Nehemiah 6:13 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Shemaiah's Plot Defeated. B. C. 445. 10 Afterward I came unto the house of Shemaiah th...
Nehemiah 6:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

That I should do so, and sin, by going into a place forbidden to me, and that in such a time and manner, and upon such an occasion; which would have been both sinful and shameful: See Poole on " N...
Nehemiah 6:13 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Nehemiah Outsmarts His Adversaries Until The Walls Are Completed ( Nehemiah 6:1-19 ) Work on the walls had meanwhile being going on apace with the result that it was finally completed apart from t...
Nehemiah 6:13 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

EXPLANATORY NOTES.] “When Sanballat and the enemies associated with him were unable to obstruct the building of the wall of Jerusalem by open violence, they endeavoured to ruin Nehemiah by secret sna...
Nehemiah 6:13 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Nehemiah 6:6 . Thou mayest be king. Sanballat accused this very old man of a crime that was in his own heart, had he but seen an opening, for he kept a standing army in Samaria. Nehemiah 6:7 ....
Nehemiah 6:13 - The Biblical Illustrator

Now it came to pass, when Sanballat. The witness to the truth I. His trial, from the stratagems of enemies. The circumstances of his trial were peculiar. Faith and prayer and pains had now achi...
Nehemiah 6:13 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION SECRET PROCEEDINGS OF SANBALLAT AND HIS FRIENDS TO HINDER THE BUILDING OF THE WALL , AND THEIR FAILURE . THE WALL COMPLETED ( Nehemiah 6:1-16 .)....
Nehemiah 6:13 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Shemaiah, The False Prophet
Nehemiah 6:13 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Timothy 5:14 ; 2 Corinthians 11:12 ; 2 Timothy 1:7 ; Acts 6:13 ; Daniel 6:4 ; Daniel 6:5 ; Ecclesiastes 7:1 ; Ezekiel 13:17-23 ; Ezekiel 2:6 ; Isaiah 51:12 ; Isaiah 51:13 ; Isaiah 51:7...
Nehemiah 6:13 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

And sin — By going into a place forbidden to me, and that in such a manner, which would have been both sinful and shameful. Reproach — As a coward, and conscious of my own guilt, that they might ma...

Nehemiah 6:13 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Nehemiah 6:13 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Nehemiah 6:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Nehemiah 6:13 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Nehemiah 6:13 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Nehemiah 6:13 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Nehemiah 6:13 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Nehemiah 6:13 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Nehemiah 6:13 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Nehemiah 6:13 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Nehemiah 6:13 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Nehemiah 6:13 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Nehemiah 6:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Nehemiah 6:13 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Nehemiah 6:13 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Nehemiah 6:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Nehemiah 6:13 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Nehemiah 6:13 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Nehemiah 6:13 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Nehemiah 6:13 - The Biblical Illustrator

Nehemiah 6:13 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Nehemiah 6:13 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Nehemiah 6:13 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Nehemiah 6:13 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes