Nehemiah 6 Kjv (2024)

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What is Nehemiah chapter 6 all about? ›

This chapter records the continuing opposition to Nehemiah from sources both external (Sanballat, Tobiah, and their allies) and internal (the prophetess Noadiah and the rest of the prophets). The map of Jerusalem in Nehemiah's time.

What's the big idea? Nehemiah recorded the reconstruction of the wall of Jerusalem, Judah's capital city. Together, he and Ezra, who led the spiritual revival of the people, directed the political and religious restoration of the Jews in their homeland after the Babylonian captivity.

Nehemiah takes the problem to God, and asks Him to handle things by strengthening his hands for the task he was called to do. He's not asking for strength to annihilate his enemies, but strength to simply do what God has called him to do.

Shemaiah son of Delaiah, a false prophet who hindered the rebuilding of Jerusalem (Nehemiah 6:10) a priest involved in the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem (Nehemiah 12:42)

Nehemiah and his followers do what seems to be the impossible because they are doing what God has called them to do. You don't have to rebuild a wall to do the will of God. Sometimes, simply waking up each day and making the most of your time with others and with God is what you're being called to do.

Nehemiah 6:13 Implores Us to Seek God to Resist Temptation. I think about ways that I'm tempted to sin that it would cause all kinds of affects.

God's leader is not discouraged by adversity.

Nehemiah listened but persisted. Nehemiah knew he was “doing a great work” (6:3) and could not come down from the wall to debate with the enemies. Nehemiah persisted even when adversity came. God's people cannot give up when adversity comes.

Nehemiah 1:11: "'O Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants who delight to fear your name, and give success to your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.

Two main actions occur: rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem and the recommitment of the returned exiles to fulfil their covenant obligations. There is something for virtually everyone—a general's diary, a governor's report, a civil record, a management handbook, and a memoir—all in one short book.

Nehemiah 6:11. Once again the enemy switches his tactics, reverting again to subterfuge. A word comes in the form of a prophecy, but this man is a false prophet. He claims to have hidden knowledge that men are coming to kill Nehemiah and advises him to go into the temple to save his life.

What does Nehemiah 6:16 mean? ›

Clarke's Commentary

Verse 16. This work was wrought of our God. — This is an additional reason why we should not wonder at the shortness of the time in which so great a work was done, for God helped them by an especial providence; and this was so very observable, that their carnal enemies could discover it.

James 5:16 tells us “the fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much,” and Nehemiah definitely prayed fervently. His prayer moved God's heart, and he was allowed to rebuild Jerusalem's walls with the King's blessing, accomplishing what several people had failed to accomplish before. Your prayers can move God too.

Let us meet together in the house of God — The meaning is, "Shut yourself up in the temple; appear to have taken sanctuary there, for in it alone can you find safety." This he said to discourage and disgrace him, and to ruin the people; for, had Nehemiah taken his advice, the people would have been without a leader, ...

Unlike Ezra, who was a priest, Nehemiah was a lay-person. He could have been born and raised in Persia. In Nehemiah 1:11, Nehemiah tells us that he was a cupbearer to king Artaxerxes. He protected the king's life with his own life, tasting the king's wine for poison.

Thus Nehemiah departed from King Artaxerxes and (most likely) Queen Damaspia to begin an initially 12-year journey that would change history.

The Message of The Book of Nehemiah: Rebuilding Our Faith provides a solid understanding of the message andperson of Nehemiah. He went through a personal crisis, trying his faith and yet proving in the end to be a great example of how God mightily works through one humble and willing prayerful godly man.

If the Fountain Gate reminds us of the Spirit of God, the Water Gate reminds us of the Word of God. In fact, it was at the Water Gate that Ezra and the priests conducted a great Bible conference and explained the Scriptures to the people.

Sanballat the Horonite (Hebrew: סַנְבַלַּט Sanḇallaṭ) – or Sanballat I – was a Samaritan leader, official of the Achaemenid Empire, and contemporary of the Israelite prophet Nehemiah who lived in the mid-to-late 5th century BC. He and his family are mentioned in the contemporary Elephantine papyri and ostraca.

The plain of Ono, where Sanballat and Geshem wanted to meet Nehemiah in order to injure him and put a stop to his work of rebuilding Jerusalem's wall, indicates a phase of consciousness wherein error thoughts seek to divert the strength and power of activity and growth and increase of substance to an unwise use, thus ...