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Nehemiah 4:8 KJV
Nehemiah · chapter 4 · verse 8
And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.Nehemiah 4:8 · King James Version
Nehemiah 4:8 in context
6So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half 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 walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,
8And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.
9Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
10And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- conspiredqâsharto tie, physically or mentallyH7194 →
- JerusalemYᵉrûwshâlaimJerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of PalestineH3389 →
- togetheryachadproperly, a unitH3162 →
- hinderʻâsâhto do or make, in the broadest sense and widest applicationH6213 →
- fightlâchamto feed onH3898 →
- comebôwʼto go or comeH935 →
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We have here, I. The conspiracy which the Jews' enemies formed against them, to stay the building by slaying the builders. The conspirators were not only Sanballat and Tobiah, but other neighbouring people whom they had drawn into the plot.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 7-15