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.

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 6:1-3). It is not arrogance to recognize the qualitative greatness of the work the Lord has given us to do. Nehemiah states, “I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down.” We should never leave the work of God to answer false charges against the Lord or us.

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.

The book of Nehemiah shows us the kind of significant impact one individual can have on a nation. Nehemiah served in secular offices, using his position to bring back to the Jews order, stability, and proper focus on God. God uses all manner of people in all manner of places doing all manner of work.

The walls were a protection, but they were also an important physical symbol of the establishment of the Jews as a people. The holy city became a unifying force as families were chosen by lot to come live in it (see Nehemiah 11:1–2).

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.

We read that the “people worked with all their heart” (Nehemiah 4:6) and “the wall was completed…in fifty-two days” (Nehemiah 6:15). Nehemiah's calling and purpose is several-fold: To serve in the trusted position of cupbearer to the king—while in exile. To be an agent of God's intervention for the remnant.

The theme of Nehemiah is the Lord's protection of his people and the need for their faithfulness in keeping the Torah (the Mosaic law) and their faithfulness in worship. The Lord hears prayer (Neh. 1:4–6). The Lord works providentially, especially through powerful rulers, to bring about his greater purposes (e.g., Neh.

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)

Who betrayed Nehemiah? ›

Then Sanballat, with Jews in Jerusalem who were his confederates, attempted to entrap Nehemiah in the Temple; but the scheme failed. Sanballat's Jewish allies, however, kept Sanballat and Tobiah informed as to the progress of the work in Jerusalem.

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.

- One of the lessons that flows out of the way this chapter unfolds is that often temptation comes on the heels of a great victory. - Nehemiah has successfully overcome the events listed in chapters 4 and 5...and he has successfully overcome the opposition recorded in these first two sections of Nehemiah chapter 6.

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.

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.

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.

The book was divided into two books in the third century A.D. The book of Nehemiah records an important time period in Jewish history, which included the rebuilding of the city of Jerusalem as well as the rebuilding of the spiritual lives of the Jews who had returned from captivity.

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.