Haggai 1:4-6; Isaiah 58:12; Matthew 6:33
The people were few - The number of those who returned with Zerubbabel was no more than 42,360 Nehemiah 7:66 . Less than 2,000 people had come w...
Nehemiah's Precautions for Guarding the City from Sudden Attack. The internal intrigues just referred to ( Nehemiah 6:17-19 ) necessitated constant...
large and great . wide, or open, and large. few therein. This could not have been said if Zerubbabel had already returned with nearly 50,000 peop...
Now the city was large and great: but the people were few therein, and the houses were not builded. The houses were not builded - The city was...
Now the city was large and great: but the people were few therein, and the houses were not builded. Now the city was large and great. The wal...
A List of those who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel 2. Hanani] after carrying information to Nehemiah respecting the condition of Jerusalem...
The houses were not builded ] i.e. the area of the city was not yet fully occupied with buildings.
VII. (1-4) Measures were taken for the security of the city, now made a complete fortress. The comparative thinness of the population taxed the go...
36-73, Public-spirited Citizens Nehemiah 7:1-8 It is probable that Nehemiah returned to the Persian court on the completion of the first part o...
At last the wall was completed by setting up the doors, and placing in order porters, singers, and Levites. In the first few verses of this chapter w...
(1) В¶ Now it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed, (2)...
Now the city was large and great ,.... The circumference of it, all within the wall; for that was built on its old foundation, and enclosed as much...
Now the city [was] large and great: but the people [were] few therein, and the houses [were] not builded. Ver. 4. Now the city was large ] Heb. Br...
The houses were not builded That is, not all, nor completely built; but only some slight buildings of boards or stones were erected, for the presen...
APPOINTMENTS MADE IN THE CITY (vv. 1-3) The wall of separation having been built and the doors hung in the gates, then appointments consistent w...
The Completion of the Wall. B. C. 445. ...
i.e. Not all, nor completely built; but only some slight buildings of boards or stones were made for the present use of the generality of the people....
The Reason For The Discovery Of The List ( Nehemiah 7:4-5 ). Nehemiah 7:4 ‘Now the city was wide and large, but the people in it were few, and...
EXPLANATORY NOTES.] “The second section of this book (chaps. 7–12:43) furnishes a description of the further efforts of Nehemiah to increase and insu...
Nehemiah 7:2 . I gave my brother Hanani, probably his eldest brother, who had come to Shushan to represent the injuries sustained by the Jews, fro...
Now it came to pass, when the wall was built. The guardian of the holy city I. His care for Jerusalem’s protection. It is a beneficent law of o...
EXPOSITION COMPLETION OF THE WORK , AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR GUARDING THE GATES ( Nehemiah 7:1-16 ). The wall and gate-towers bei...
The Charge of the City
Now, the city was large and great, but the people were few therein, and the houses were not builded, that is, its area was very great in proportion t...
4 Now the city was largea and great: but the people were few therein, and the houses were not builded.