Nehemiah 6:3 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you? ”

Nehemiah 6:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I [am] doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: (b) why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you? (b) Meaning, that if he obeyed...
Nehemiah 6:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Nehemiah's Enemies Make a further Attempt to Frustrate his Work. The narrative about the rebuilding of the walls, which was broken by ch. 5, is here taken up again. Sanballat and his confederates s...
Nehemiah 6:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

why... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6.
Nehemiah 6:3 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 442 NEHEMIAH’S FIRMNESS Nehemiah 6:3-4 . I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and co...
Nehemiah 6:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you? I am doing a great work - Though he...
Nehemiah 6:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you? No JFB commentary on these ve...
Nehemiah 6:3 - 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 6:3 - 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 6:3 - 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 6:3 - 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 6:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(1) В¶ Now it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall, and that there was no breach left therein; (though at t...
Nehemiah 6:3 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

HARMFUL MEDDLERS AND HOW TO TREAT THEM ‘And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to...
Nehemiah 6:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And I sent messengers unto them ,.... He did not show any open contempt of them, nor did he even return answer by the messenger that came from them, but sent some of his own people to them: saying...
Nehemiah 6:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I [am] doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you? Ver. 3. And I sent messengers un...
Nehemiah 6:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

I am doing a great work He acquainted them that he thought the business which they might have with him could not be of such importance as that which he had in hand; and therefore he would not put a...
Nehemiah 6:3 - 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 6:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Plot of Sanballat, c. B. C. 445. 1 Now it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobiah,...
Nehemiah 6:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

I am doing a great work: he tells them one, but not the only, nor the principal, reason of his refusal, because his coming might cause the work to cease, not only by the neglect of it during his ab...
Nehemiah 6:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Judah's Adversaries Learn That The Wall Is Completed Apart From The Gateways ( Nehemiah 6:1 ). Nehemiah 6:1 ‘Now it came about, when it was reported to Sanballat and Tobiah, and to Geshem the A...
Nehemiah 6:3 - 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 6:3 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Nehemiah 6:3-4 Nehemiah's work was not the building of the altar, not the completing of the Temple; his work was the building up of the walls of Jerusalem, building up the wall round about and set...
Nehemiah 6:3 - 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 6:3 - 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 6:3 - 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 6:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Enmity of Sanballat
Nehemiah 6:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Timothy 4:15 ; 1 Timothy 4:16 ; Ecclesiastes 9:10 ; John 9:4 ; Luke 14:30 ; Matthew 10:16 ; Proverbs 14:15

Nehemiah 6:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Nehemiah 6:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Nehemiah 6:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Nehemiah 6:3 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Nehemiah 6:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Nehemiah 6:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Nehemiah 6:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Nehemiah 6:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Nehemiah 6:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Nehemiah 6:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Nehemiah 6:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Nehemiah 6:3 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Nehemiah 6:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Nehemiah 6:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Nehemiah 6:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Nehemiah 6:3 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Nehemiah 6:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Nehemiah 6:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Nehemiah 6:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Nehemiah 6:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Nehemiah 6:3 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Nehemiah 6:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Nehemiah 6:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

Nehemiah 6:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Nehemiah 6:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Nehemiah 6:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge