Nehemiah 6:3

why... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6.

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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...
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 her...
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: wh...
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 com...
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 c...
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.
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 p...
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 eng...
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 co...
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 t...
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 t...
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,...
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 com...
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 whic...
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 wa...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Plot of Sanballat, c. B. C. 445. 1...
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...
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 rep...
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...
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 violenc...
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 J...
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 k...
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...
The Biblical Illustrator

A great work. A great work A story is told of an old man who rived long ago. A friend asked him the cause of his complaints, since in the eveni...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION SECRET PROCEEDINGS OF SANBALLAT AND HIS FRIENDS TO HINDER THE BUILDING OF THE WALL , AND THEIR FAILUR...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Enmity of Sanballat
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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...
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

³ 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?

Related Commentaries of Nehemiah 6:3

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Nehemiah 6:3