Nehemiah Chapter 6

Sanballat’s crafty opposition to Nehemiah

6:1 Now it so happened when Sanballatלְסַנְבַלַּט‎
Transliteration: lᵊsanḇallaṭ; Sanballat = “strength” Of foreign origin; Sanballat, a Persian satrap of Samaria:—Sanballat. For more info click here, and Tobiahוְטוֹבִיָּה‎
Transliteration vᵊṭôḇîyâ Tobiah = “Jehovah is good” For more info click here, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had built the wall, and that there was no break left in it; (though at that time I hadn’t installed the door on the gates;)
6:2 That Sanballatסַנְבַּלַּט‎
Çanballaṭ, san-bal-lat’; Sanballat = “strength” Of foreign origin; Sanballat, a Persian satrap of Samaria:—Sanballat. For more info click here and Geshem sent to me, saying, Come, let us meet together in the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do evilרָעָה‎
Transliteration: rāʿâ -Hebrew Noun: Common Feminine Singular Absolute – In the KJV is translated in the following manner: evil (442x), wickedness (59x), wicked (25x), mischief (21x), hurt (20x), bad (13x), trouble (10x), sore (9x), affliction (6x), ill (5x), adversity (4x), ill favored (3x), harm (3x), naught (3x), noisome (2x), grievous (2x), sad (2x), miscellaneous (34x) For more info click here to me.
6:3 And I sentmessengersמַלְאָכִים‎
Transliteration: mal’āḵim angels, messengers, agents, ambassadors or representatives. For more info click here s to them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I can’t come down: why should the work cease, while I leave it, and come down to you?
6:4 Yet they sent to me four times after this way. And I answered them in the same way.
6:5 Then Sanballatסַנְבַּלַּט‎
Çanballaṭ, san-bal-lat’; Sanballat = “strength” Of foreign origin; Sanballat, a Persian satrap of Samaria:—Sanballat. For more info click here sent his servant to me in same way the fifth time with an open letter in his hand;
6:6 In which was written, It is reported among the nationsבַּגּוֹיִם‎
Transliteration: bagôyim – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Absolute (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts: — in/among the Gentiles, in/among the heathen, in/among the nations, in/among the people. For more info click here, and Gashmu (or Geshem) says, [that] you and the Jewsהַיְּהוּדִים
Transliteration: hayyᵊhûḏîm – Jew (74x), Judah (1x) The term ‘Yehudi’ (derived from Yeddah, or Judah, fourth son of Jacob) has become a synonym for Jew. Yehudah’s mother gave him that name because she said, ‘I will praise God.’ Yehudah is thus a declaration that Jews always praise God, hence the common name Yehudi regardless of tribal origin (Sfas Emes) for more info click here are thinking of rebelling: for what reason have you building the wall, so that you may be their king? according to these words.
6:7 And you have also appointed prophets to preach of youin Jerusalemבִּירוּשָׁלִָם‎
Transliteration: bîrûšālām – proper locative noun meaning “teaching of peace” or possession of peace – also called the city of David and Zion – the chief city of Palestine and capital of the united kingdom and the nation of Judah after the split For more info click here, saying, There is a king in Judah! And now shall it be reported to the king according to these words. So, come now and let us talk it over together.
6:8 Then I sent to him, saying, These things you saying are not happening, but you make them up out of your own heart.
6:9 For they all were fearmongers of us, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, and that it will not be done. Now, strengthen my hands.
6:10 And I came to the house of Shemaiahשְׁמַעְיָה‎
Transliteration: šᵊmaʿyâ Pronunciation: shem-aw-yaw’ = “heard by YAHWEH” Shemajah, the name of twenty-five Israelites For more info click here the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabeel (or or Mehetabel), who was shut up. And he said, Let us meet together in the house of Elohimאֱלֹהִים
romanized: ʾĔlōhīm: [(ʔ)eloˈ(h)im]), the plural of אֱלוֹהַּ‎ (ʾĔlōah), is a Hebrew word meaning “gods”. Although the word is plural, in the Hebrew Bible it most often takes singular verbal or pronominal agreement and refers to a single deity particularly the God of Israel In other verses it refers to the singular gods of other nations or to deities in the plural A name for GOD — God The Creator, inside the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple. Because they will come to kill you. Yes, in the night will they come to kill you.
6:11 And I said, Should [such] a man as I flee? And who [being] as I [am], would go into the temple and live? I won’t go in.
6:12 And, look, I understood that Elohimאֱלֹהִים
romanized: ʾĔlōhīm: [(ʔ)eloˈ(h)im]), the plural of אֱלוֹהַּ‎ (ʾĔlōah), is a Hebrew word meaning “gods”. Although the word is plural, in the Hebrew Bible it most often takes singular verbal or pronominal agreement and refers to a single deity particularly the God of Israel In other verses it refers to the singular gods of other nations or to deities in the plural A name for GOD — God The Creator hadn’t sent him; because he spoke this prophecy against me: because Tobiahטוֹבִיָּה‎
Transliteration ṭôḇîyâ Pronunciation to-bee-yaw’ Tobiah = “Yahweh is good” For more info click here and Sanballatוְטוֹבִיָּה‎
Çanballaṭ, san-bal-lat’; Sanballat = “strength” Of foreign origin; Sanballat, a Persian satrap of Samaria:—Sanballat. For more info click here had hired him.
6:13 So he was hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sinוְחָטָאתִי
Transliteration: vᵊḥāṭā’ṯî – sin, guilt for sin, punishment for sin, a crime or its penalty, offense, (punishment of) sin – For more info click here, and become for them that an evilרַערָע‎
Transliteration: rāʿ – In the KJV is translated in the following manner: evil (442x), wickedness (59x), wicked (25x), mischief (21x), hurt (20x), bad (13x), trouble (10x), sore (9x), affliction (6x), ill (5x), adversity (4x), ill favored (3x), harm (3x), naught (3x), noisome (2x), grievous (2x), sad (2x), miscellaneous (34x) For more info click here name [with] which they might disgrace me.
6:14 My Elohimאֱלֹהַי
my God – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word is Elohim for more info on the word click here, remember Tobiahלְטוֹבִיָּה‎
Transliteration lᵊṭôḇîyâ Tobiah = “YAHWEH is good” For more info click here and and Sanballatוּלְסַנְבַלַּט‎
Çanballaṭ, san-bal-lat’; Sanballat = “strength” Of foreign origin; Sanballat, a Persian satrap of Samaria:—Sanballat. For more info click here according to these works of theirs, and also to the prophetess Noadiah (meaning meeting with Yahweh), and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.

The wall is finished

6:15 So the wall was restored on the twenty fifth [day] of [the month] of Elulלֶאֱלוּל
(Standard ʾElūl, Tiberian ʾĔlūl) is the twelfth month of the civil year and the sixth month of the religious year in the Hebrew calendar. It is a month of 29 days. Elul usually occurs in August–September on the Gregorian calendar. For more info click here, on fifty second day.
6:16 And when all our enemies heard, and all the nationsהַגּוֹיִם‎
Transliteration: hagôyim – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Absolute (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts:—the Gentiles, the heathen, the nations, the people. For more info click here that were around us saw these things, they were very much lowered in their own eyes: because they saw that this work was done by our Elohim אֱלֹהֵינוּ
Pronounced:’ĕlōhênû – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word is Elohim for more info on the word click here.
6:17 Then in those days the nobles of Judahיְהוּדָה‎
Modern: Yəhūda, Tiberian: Yŭhūḏā), literally “thanksgiving” or “praise,” is the noun form of the root Y-D-H (ידה), “to thank” or “to praise. The fourth of the six sons of Jacob and Leah. Also referring to the tribe of Judah or The Kingdom of Judah later referred to as Judea – For more info click here sent many letters to Tobiahטוֹבִיָּה‎
Transliteration ṭôḇîyâ Pronunciation to-bee-yaw’ Tobiah = “Jehovah is good” For more info click here, and those letters of Tobiahלְטוֹבִיָּה‎
Transliteration: lᵊṭôḇîyâ Tobiah = “Yahweh is good” For more info click here came to them.
6:18 For many in Judahבִּיהוּדָה‎
Transliteration: bîhûḏâ, literally “thanksgiving” or “praise,” is the noun form of the root Y-D-H (ידה), “to thank” or “to praise. The fourth of the six sons of Jacob and Leah. Also referring to the tribe of Judah or The Kingdom of Judah later referred to as Judea – For more info click here were sworn to him, because he was the son in law of Shechaniahשְׁכַנְיָה‎
Transliteration šᵊḵanyâ Pronunciation shek-an-yaw’ Jah has dwelt; Shekanjah, the name of nine Israelites:—Shecaniah, Shechaniah. For more info click here the son of Arah (meaning traveler); and his son Johanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah (or Berechiah).
6:19 Also they reported his good deedsטוֹבֹתָיו
Transliteration: ṭôḇōṯāyv – good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well):—beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, fair, (be in) favor, fine, glad, good (deed, -lier, -lie, -ly, -ness, -s), graciously, joyful, kindly, kindness, like (best), loving, merry, × most, pleasant, please, pleasure, precious, prosperity, ready, sweet, wealth, welfare, (be) well(-favored). For more info click here before me, and my words were going to him. Tobiahטוֹבִיָּה‎
Transliteration ṭôḇîyâ Pronunciation to-bee-yaw’ Tobiah = “Jehovah is good” For more info click here sent letters to scare me.