Nehemiah 6:4

Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.

Related Commentaries of Nehemiah 6:4

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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

four times. The enemy takes no denial. after the same manner. The only sure and safe procedure. Compare 1 Samuel 17:30 .
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...
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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort ,.... Being very desirous of getting him into their hands, and therefore were very pressing and imp...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner. Ver. 4. Yet they sent unto me four times ] As thinkin...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort We must never be overcome by the greatest importunity to do any thing ill or imprudent: but when w...
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

No text from Poole on this verse.
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 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

Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort, hoping to wear down his resistance by their persistent efforts; and I answered them after the same...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 15:58 ; Galatians 2:5 ; Judges 16:10 ; Judges 16:15-20 ; Judges 16:6 ; Luke 18:5 ; Proverbs 14:15 ; Proverbs 7:21
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Four times, &c. — We must never be overcome by the greatest importunity, to do anything ill or imprudent: but when we are attacked with the sam...

⁴ Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.

Related Commentaries of Nehemiah 6:4

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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

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 Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Nehemiah 6:4