Nehemia 6:5

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Lalu dengan cara yang sama untuk kelima kalinya Sanbalat mengirim seorang anak buahnya kepadaku yang membawa surat yang terbuka.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Lalu dengan cara yang sama untuk kelima kalinya Sanbalat mengirim seorang anak buahnya kepadaku yang membawa surat yang terbuka.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Setelah itu maka pada kelima kalinya disuruhkan Sanbalat hambanya kepadaku dengan pinta itu juga dan adalah pada tangannya sepucuk surat yang terbuka,

Contextual Overview

¹ And when Sanaballat, Tobia, and Gesem the Arabian, and the other of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall, and that there were no mo gappes therein: (howebeit at the same time had I not hanged the doores vpon the gates,) ² Sanaballat and Gesem sent vnto me, saying: Come, that we may meete & take counsel together in the villages that are in the playne of the citie Ono. Neuerthelesse, they thought to do me euill. ³ And I sent messengers vnto them, saying: I haue a great businesse to do, and I can not come downe: Why should the worke ceasse, whilest I leaue it and come downe to you? ⁴ Howbeit, they sent vnto me as good as foure times after the same maner: And I gaue them the same aunswere. ⁵ Then sent Sanaballat his seruaunt againe vnto me the fift time, with an open letter in his hande, ⁶ Wherein was written: It is tolde the heathen, and Gesem hath saide it, that thou and the Iewes thinke to rebel: for the which cause thou buildest the wall, that thou mayst be their king, according to these wordes: ⁷ And hast ordayned the prophetes to preache of thee at Hierusalem, and to say, He is king of Iuda. And now shall this come to the kinges eares: come now therefore, and let vs take our counsell together. ⁸ And I sent vnto him, saying: There is no such thing done as thou sayest, for thou fainest them out of thyne owne heart. ⁹ For they were all minded to make vs afrayde, saying, They shall withdrawe their handes from their worke, that it shall not be finished: Nowe therefore strengthen thou my hande.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

with an open letter: This was a gross insult to a person of Nehemiah's quality; as the letters sent to chiefs and governors in the East are always carefully folded up, put in silk bags, and then sealed. 2 Kings 18:26-28, 2 Corinthians 2:11, 2 Corinthians 11:13-15, Ephesians 6:11, 2 Thessalonians 2:10

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 21:8 - she wrote 2 Chronicles 32:17 - He wrote Jeremiah 29:25 - Because Acts 24:5 - and a mover

Cross-References

Genesis 6:1
And it came to passe, that when men began to be multiplied in the vpper face of the earth, there were daughters borne vnto the:

Genesis 6:3
And the Lorde sayde: My spirite shall not alwayes stryue with man, because he is fleshe: yet his dayes shalbe an hundreth and twentie yeres.

Genesis 6:4
But there were Giantes in those dayes in ye earth: yea & after that the sonnes of God came vnto the daughters of me, and hadde begotten chyldren of them, the same became myghtie men of the worlde, and men of renowme.

Genesis 6:9
These are the generations of Noah: Noah [was] a iust man, and perfect in his generations: And Noah walked with God.

Genesis 6:19
And of euery lyuyng thyng of all fleshe, a payre of euery one shalt thou bryng into the arke to kepe them alyue with thee, they shalbe male & female.

Genesis 6:20
Of fethered foules also after their kinde, and of all cattell after their kinde: of euery worme of the earth after his kynde, two of euery one shall come vnto thee, to kepe [them] alyue.

Genesis 6:21
And take thou with thee of all meate that is eaten, and thou shalt lay it vp with thee, that it may be meate for thee and them.

Genesis 8:21
And the Lorde smelled a sweete [or quiet] sauour, and the Lord sayde in his heart: I wyll not hencefoorth curse the grounde any more for mans sake, for the imagination of mans heart is euyll [euen] from his youth: neyther wyll I smyte any more euery thyng lyuyng, as I haue done.

Genesis 13:13
But the men of Sodome [were] wicked, and exceedyng sinners agaynst the Lorde.

Deuteronomy 29:19
So that when he heareth the wordes of this othe, he blesse hym selfe in his heart, saying: I shall haue peace, I wyll walke in the meanyng of myne owne heart: to put the drunken to the thirstie.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then sent Sanballat his servant unto me in like manner the fifth time,.... In his own name, neither Tobiah nor Geshem joining with him, he being more solicitous and anxious to get him into his hands than any of them; and it may be, as some think, pretending more friendship for him than the rest, and therefore writes alone, as if they knew nothing of his writing:

with an open letter in his hand: which having in it an intimation of Nehemiah being guilty of treason, anyone that would might read it, and so spread the defamation.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The letter was “open,” in order that the contents might be generally known, and that the Jews, alarmed at the threats contained in it, might refuse to continue the work.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Nehemiah 6:5. With an open letter in his hand — This was an insult to a person of Nehemiah's quality: as letters sent to chiefs and governors in the East are always carefully folded up, and put in costly silken bags, and these carefully sealed. The circumstance is thus marked to show the contempt he (Sanballat) had for him.