Nehemiah 6:15-19 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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The Rebuilding of the Wall is Completed. Tobiah's Friends in Judah.

Nehemiah 6:15. Elul: = August approximately. The rebuilding of the walls was completed in 444 B.C., having taken fifty-two days.

Nehemiah 6:16. feared: the RVm. can be disregarded; the Heb. is defectively written. were much cast down...: read and it was very marvellous in their eyes; this is gained by a slight emendation of the Heb. text, which gives no sense as it stands.

Nehemiah 6:17 f. These verses bear witness to the intrigues which were being carried on in the city itself.

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Nehemiah 6:15-19

15 So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.

16 And it came to pass, that when all our enemies heard thereof, and all the heathen that were about us saw these things, they were much cast down in their own eyes: for they perceived that this work was wrought of our God.

17 Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sentb many letters unto Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came unto them.

18 For there were many in Judah sworn unto him, because he was the son in law of Shechaniah the son of Arah; and his son Johanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah.

19 Also they reported his good deeds before me, and uttered my wordsc to him. And Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.