Nehemiah 4:6
So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.
Nehemiah 4:6 in other translations
| BSB | So we rebuilt the wall until all of it was joined together up to half its height, for the people had a mind to work. |
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| WEB | So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half its height, for the people had a mind to work. |
| ASV | 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. |
| YLT | And we build the wall, and all the wall is joined--unto its half, and the people have a heart to work. |
| DARBY | But we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to the half thereof; for the people had a mind to work. |
| BBE | So we went on building the wall; and all the wall was joined together half-way up: for the people were working hard. |
| Webster | So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to the half of it, for the people had a mind to work. |
What does Nehemiah 4:6 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Nehemiah 4:1-6
Many a good work has been looked upon with contempt by proud and haughty scorners. Those who disagree in almost every thing, will unite in persecution. Nehemiah did not answer these fools according to their folly, but looked up to God by prayer. God's people have often been a despised people, but he hears all the slights that are put upon them, and it is their comfort that he does so. Nehemiah had reason to think…
Nehemiah 4:6 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Nehemiah 4:6
- Philippians 2:13
For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
- 1 Chronicles 29:3
Moreover, because I have set my affection to the house of my God, I have of mine own proper good, of gold and silver, which I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,
- Hebrews 13:21
Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
- Nehemiah 6:15
So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.
- 1 Chronicles 29:17-18
I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are present here, to offer willingly unto thee. O Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee:
- 1 Chronicles 29:14
But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.
- Psalms 110:3
Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.
- 2 Chronicles 29:36
And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had prepared the people: for the thing was done suddenly.
- 2 Corinthians 8:16-17
But thanks be to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus for you. For indeed he accepted the exhortation; but being more forward, of his own accord he went unto you.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
for the people.The original is very emphatic, {wyhee laiv lëâm läâsoth,} "for the people had a heart to work." Their heart was engaged in it, and they went about it cheerfully and vigorously.
had a mind.
6:15; 1Ch 29:3,14,17,18; 2Ch 29:36; Ps 110:3; 2Co 8:16,17
Php 2:13; Heb 13:21
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Context
- Nehemiah 4:5
And 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.
- Nehemiah 4:6
So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.
- Nehemiah 4:7
But 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,
Nehemiah 4:6 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Edificamos pues el muro, y toda la muralla fué junta hasta su mitad: y el pueblo tuvo ánimo para obrar. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et il arriva que, comme les Juifs qui habitaient près d’eux vinrent et nous le dirent par dix fois, de tous les lieux d’où ils revenaient vers nous, |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Aber wir bauten weiter an der Mauer; und die ganze Mauer wurde bis zur Hälfte geschlossen, und das Volk hatte Mut zur Arbeit. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Itaque ædificavimus murum, et conjunximus totum usque ad partem dimidiam: et provocatum est cor populi ad operandum. |