Nehemia 4:2

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

dan berkata di hadapan saudara-saudaranya dan tentara Samaria: "Apa gerangan yang dilakukan orang-orang Yahudi yang lemah ini? Apakah mereka memperkokoh sesuatu? Apakah mereka hendak membawa persembahan? Apakah mereka akan selesai dalam sehari? Apakah mereka akan menghidupkan kembali batu-batu dari timbunan puing yang sudah terbakar habis seperti ini?"

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
dan berkata di hadapan saudara-saudaranya dan tentara Samaria: "Apa gerangan yang dilakukan orang-orang Yahudi yang lemah ini? Apakah mereka memperkokoh sesuatu? Apakah mereka hendak membawa persembahan? Apakah mereka akan selesai dalam sehari? Apakah mereka akan menghidupkan kembali batu-batu dari timbunan puing yang sudah terbakar habis seperti ini?"

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka berkata-katalah ia di hadapan segala saudaranya dan segala tentara Samaria, katanya: Apakah perbuatan orang Yahudi yang letih lesu ini? Patutkah orang membiarkan dia? Bolehkah mereka itu mempersembahkan korban kelak? Dapatkah mereka itu menyudahkannya pada sehari jua? Dapatkah mereka itu menghidupkan pula batu-batu dari pada kerobohan yang sudah dibakar adanya?

Contextual Overview

¹ But when Sanaballat hearde that we buylded the wall, he was wroth in him selfe, and toke great indignation, and mocked the Iewes: ² And sayde before his brethren and the souldiers of Samaria: what do these impotent Iewes? will the [heathen] suffer them? shall they offer? shal they perfourme it in one day? shal they make the stones whole againe that are brought to dust and brent? ³ And Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and sayde: Though they buyld, yet if a foxe go vp, he shall breake downe their stony wall. ⁴ Heare O thou our God, for we are despised, turne their shame vpon their owne head, & geue them ouer into despising in the lande of their captiuitie. ⁵ Couer not their wickednesse, and let not their sinne be put out in thy presence: for they haue prouoked the buylders. ⁶ And so buylded we the wall, and it was ioyned whole together vnto the halfe heyght thereof: And the people were minded to labour.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the army: Ezra 4:9, Ezra 4:10

feeble: 1 Samuel 14:11, 1 Samuel 14:12, 1 Samuel 17:43, 1 Samuel 17:44, Zechariah 12:8, 1 Corinthians 1:27

fortify themselves: Heb. leave to themselves

sacrifice: Nehemiah 12:27, Nehemiah 12:43

revive: Nehemiah 4:10, Ezekiel 37:3-13, Habakkuk 3:2

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 17:42 - disdained 2 Kings 18:23 - I will deliver 1 Chronicles 11:8 - repaired Nehemiah 6:15 - fifty Psalms 14:6 - Ye Psalms 102:14 - General Psalms 123:3 - for we are Psalms 137:3 - wasted us Proverbs 11:12 - that Ecclesiastes 9:10 - thy hand Isaiah 36:8 - and I Jeremiah 9:11 - Jerusalem Jeremiah 26:18 - Jerusalem Jeremiah 33:24 - thus Lamentations 3:14 - General Zechariah 4:10 - despised John 4:9 - for John 18:35 - Amos I

Cross-References

Genesis 3:23
Therefore the Lorde God sent hym foorth fro the garden of Eden, to worke the grounde whence he was taken.

Genesis 4:25
Adam knewe his wyfe agayne, and she bare a sonne, and called his name Seth: For God [sayde she] hath appoynted me another seede in steade of Habel whom Cain slewe.

Genesis 4:26
And vnto the same Seth also there was borne a sonne, and he called his name Enos: then began men to make inuocation in the name of the Lorde.

Genesis 9:20
Noah also began to be an husbandman, and planted a vineyarde.

Genesis 37:13
And Israel sayde vnto Ioseph: do not thy brethren kepe in Sichem? come, and I wyll sende thee to them.

Genesis 47:3
And Pharao sayd vnto his brethren: what is your occupation? And they aunswered Pharao: thy seruauntes are kepers of cattell, both we, and also our fathers.

Exodus 3:1
Moyses kept the sheepe of Iethro his father in lawe, priest of Madian: and he droue the flocke to the backesyde of the desert, aud came to the mountayne of God Horeb.

Psalms 127:3
Beholde, chyldren be the inheritage of God: and the fruite of the wombe is a rewarde.

Amos 7:15
And the Lorde toke me as I folowed the flocke, and the Lord sayde vnto me, Go, prophecie vnto my people Israel.

Luke 11:51
From the blood of Abel, vnto ye blood of Zacharie, whiche perished betwene the aulter & the temple: Ueryly I saye vnto you, it shalbe required of this nation.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he spake before his brethren,.... Tobiah the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, and perhaps some other governors of the king of Persia in those parts:

and before the army of Samaria: which, and the inhabitants of it, were implacable enemies of the Jews:

and said, what do these feeble Jews? what do they pretend to do, or what can they do?

will they fortify themselves? by building a wall about their city; can they think they shall ever be able to do this, or that it will be allowed?

will they sacrifice? meaning not their daily sacrifice, as Jarchi, that they had done a long time, but for the dedication of their building, as Aben Ezra:

will they make an end in a day? they seem to be in as great a hurry and haste as if they meant it; and indeed, unless they can do it very quickly, they never will: they will soon be stopped:

will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burnt? where will they find materials? do they imagine that they can make burnt stones firm and strong again, or harden the dust and rubbish into stones, or make that, which is as if dead, alive? to do this is the same as to revive a dead man, and they may as well think of doing the one as the other; burnt stones being reckoned as dead, as Eben Ezra observes.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Nehemiah 4:2. The army of Samaria — As he was governor, he had the command of the army, and he wished to excite the soldiers to second his views against Nehemiah and his men.

What do these feeble Jews? — We may remark here, in general, that the enemies of God's work endeavour by all means to discredit and destroy it, and those who are employed in it.

1. They despise the workmen: What do these feeble Jews?

2. They endeavour to turn all into ridicule: Will they fortify themselves?

3. They have recourse to lying: If a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.

4. They sometimes use fair but deceitful speeches; see Nehemiah 6:2, &c.