Nehemiah 6:1,2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

I had not set up the doors Not all of them. Come, let us meet together To consult about the common service of our master the king of Persia, or to make a friendly accommodation. In one of the villages in the plain of Ono A city in the tribe of Benjamin, of which see Nehemiah 11:35; 1 Chronicles 8:12. But they thought to do me mischief It is likely they intended to kill him, of which, perhaps, he had received some private intelligence.

Nehemiah 6:1-2

1 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 that time I had not set up the doors upon the gates;)

2 That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.