Nehemiah 4:7

Biblia Hebrica Stuttgartensia (1967/77)

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Sanballat: Nehemiah 4:1, Nehemiah 2:10, Nehemiah 2:19

the Ammonites: Judges 10:7-18, Judges 11:12-40, 1 Samuel 11:2, 2 Samuel 10:1-5, 2 Kings 24:2, 2 Chronicles 20:1, Ezekiel 25:3-7, Amos 1:13

Ashdodites: Nehemiah 13:23, Nehemiah 13:24, 1 Samuel 5:1, 1 Samuel 5:2, 2 Chronicles 26:6-8, Jeremiah 25:20, Amos 1:8, Amos 3:9, Zechariah 9:5, Zechariah 9:6

heard: Ezra 4:4-16, Ezra 5:8

were made up: Heb. ascended

then: Genesis 3:15, Acts 4:17, Acts 4:18, Acts 5:33, Revelation 12:12, Revelation 12:13, Revelation 12:17

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 23:3 - Ammonite 1 Kings 11:27 - the breaches 1 Chronicles 19:2 - the children 2 Chronicles 24:13 - the work was perfected by them Ezra 9:1 - Ammonites Nehemiah 6:1 - when Sanballat Nehemiah 6:16 - when all our enemies Isaiah 58:12 - The repairer Jeremiah 41:10 - to the Jeremiah 49:1 - their king

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it came to pass that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians,.... Who were under and influenced by Geshem the Arabian:

and the Ammonites; over whom Tobiah was governor:

and the Ashdodites; who were of Ashdod or Azotus, one of the principalities of the Philistines, who were always enemies to the Jews:

heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up; or "the length of them went up" d; that is, the height of them; that they rose up high apace, and were got up to, or almost to their proper height:

and that the breaches began to be stopped; for the walls were not all thrown down by the Chaldeans, but breaches made here and there, which were now repaired:

then they were very wroth; and could not avoid showing it; before they mocked them, as attempting what they could not go through with; but now, perceiving the work went on with great success, they were enraged.

d עלתה ארוכה "ascendisset longitudo", Montanus; so Coeceius in rad.

ארך.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Arabians ... - Probably a band, composed largely of Arabians, Ammonites, and Ashdodites, which Sanballat maintained as a guard to his person, and which formed a portion of “the army of Samaria” Nehemiah 4:2. A quarrel between such a band and the people of Jerusalem might be overlooked by the Persian king.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Nehemiah 4:7. The walls of Jerusalem were made up — That is, they were made up to the half height of the wall; for the preceding verse seems to intimate that the whole wall was thus far built; not half of the wall completed, but the whole wall built to half its height.