Nehemiah 4:6

Nehemiah 4:6 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.
• New International Version (NIV)So we rebuilt the wall till all of it reached half its height, for the people worked with all their heart.
• English Standard Version (ESV)So we built the wall. And all the wall was joined together to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.
• New King James Version (NKJV)So we built the wall, and the entire wall was joined together up to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.

Context of Nehemiah 4:6

4Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn back their reproach upon their own head, and give them up for a spoil in a land of captivity; 5and cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee; for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders. So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto half the height thereof: for the people had a mind to work. 7But it came to pass that, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth; 8and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.

Nehemiah 4:6 word by word

וַנִּבְנֶה֙ אֶת־הַ֣חוֹמָ֔ה וַתִּקָּשֵׁ֥ר כָּל־הַחוֹמָ֖ה עַד־חֶצְיָ֑הּ וַיְהִ֧י לֵ֦ב לָעָ֖ם לַעֲשֽׂוֹת׃ פRead the interlinear

• wasהָיָהhâyâh · to beH1961

Cross-references for Nehemiah 4:6

• Nehemiah 6:15So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifthdayofthe monthElul, in fifty and two days.
• 1 Chronicles 29:3Moreover also, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, seeing that I have a treasure of mine own of gold and silver, I give it unto the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,
• 2 Chronicles 29:36And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, because of that which God had prepared for the people: for the thing was done suddenly.
• Psalms 110:3Thy people offer themselves willingly In the day of thy power, in holy array: Out of the womb of the morning Thou hast the dew of thy youth.
• 2 Corinthians 8:16But thanks be to God, who putteth the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.
• Philippians 2:13for it is God who worketh in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
• Hebrews 13:21make you perfect in every good thing to do his will, working in us that which is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Commentaries on Nehemiah 4:6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6For the people had a mind to work - The original is very emphatic: לעשות לעם לב ויהי vayehi leb leam laasoth, "For the people had a heart to work." Their hearts were engaged in it; and where the heart is engaged, the work of God goes on well. The whole of this 6th verse is omitted by the Septuagint.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6Unto the half thereof - i. e. to half the intended height.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6half its height: The wall might be 3.0 to 3.7 meters (ten to 12 feet) tall. Some scholars think the original wall was six to 7.3 meters (20 to 24 feet) high.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof--The whole circuit of the wall had been distributed in sections to various companies of the people, and was completed to the half of the intended height.Read the comment

Topics related to Nehemiah 4:6

• Diligence
• Liberality

In the dictionaries

• Armour
• Sanballat
• Ammon; Ammonites
• Esdras, the First Book of

Commentaries on Nehemiah 4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings