Nehemiah 6:9

Biblia Hebrica Stuttgartensia (1967/77)

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For they: Nehemiah 6:14, Nehemiah 4:10-14, 2 Chronicles 32:18

Their hands: 2 Chronicles 15:7, Ezra 4:1-24, Isaiah 35:3, Isaiah 35:4, Jeremiah 38:4, Hebrews 12:12

Now therefore: 1 Samuel 30:6, Psalms 56:3, Psalms 71:1, Psalms 68:35, Psalms 138:3, Isaiah 41:10, Zechariah 10:12, 2 Corinthians 12:9, Ephesians 3:16, Ephesians 6:10, Philippians 4:13, 1 Peter 5:10

Reciprocal: Genesis 49:24 - his bow Judges 7:11 - thine hands 2 Samuel 4:1 - his hands Ezra 4:4 - weakened Ezra 4:24 - So Nehemiah 2:19 - Geshem Nehemiah 6:11 - would go Nehemiah 6:19 - to put Jeremiah 18:19 - hearken Ezekiel 30:24 - I will Luke 13:31 - Get

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For they all made us afraid,.... Or you all, as Aben Ezra interprets it; or all the Heathen nations, as Jarchi; this was the design of all those scandalous reports, to intimidate them, and with this they pleased themselves, as follows:

their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done; this they hoped would be the effect of those reports sent to them:

now, therefore, O God, strengthen my hands; and let them not have what they will, and hope for; according to Aben Ezra, these words are directed to Sanballat, that if he was a friend, as he pretended, that instead of weakening, he would strengthen his hands by a sincere reconciliation; so Vatablus; but they are an address to God, such short ejaculations being usual with Nehemiah.