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, our God, for we are despised, and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey 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 the builders. But we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to the half thereof; for the people had a mind to work. 7And it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobijah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the walls of Jerusalem were being repaired, that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth, 8and conspired all of them together to come to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.

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 on the twenty-fifth of Elul, in fifty-two days.
• 1 Chronicles 29:3And moreover, in my affection for the house of my God I have given of my own property of gold and silver, for the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the house of the sanctuary:
• 2 Chronicles 29:36And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had prepared the people; for the thing was done suddenly.
• Psalms 110:3Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in holy splendour: from the womb of the morning [shall come] to thee the dew of thy youth.
• 2 Corinthians 8:16But thanks [be] to God, who gives the same diligent zeal for you in the heart of Titus.
• Philippians 2:13for it is God who works in you both the willing and the working according to [his] good pleasure.
• Hebrews 13:21perfect you in every good work to the doing of his will, doing in you what is pleasing before him through Jesus Christ; to whom [be] glory for the ages of ages. 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