Nehemiah 6 · Verse 15

Nehemiah 6:15

So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.

Nehemiah 6:15, King James Version

Nehemiah 6:15 in other translations

BSB	So the wall was completed in fifty-two days, on the twenty-fifth of Elul.
WEB	So the wall was finished in the twenty-fifth day of Elul, in fifty-two days.
ASV	So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.
YLT	And the wall is completed in the twenty and fifth of Elul, on the fifty and second day;
DARBY	So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth of Elul, in fifty-two days.
BBE	So the wall was complete on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty-two days.
Webster	So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.

What does Nehemiah 6:15 mean?

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 15 The twenty and fifth - of - Elul - This Jewish month answers to a part of our August and September. Fifty and two days - I see no difficulty in supposing that several thousand workmen, each of whom was working as for God, should be able to complete this wall in fifty-two days. There is little doubt that several parts of the old wall were entire; in many places the foundations still remained; there were all the materials of the old wall still at hand; and though they had to clear and carry away much rubbish, yet they do not appear to have had any stones to quarry. The work mentioned here was little when compared to what Caesar did in Gaul and other places; and to what Titus did at Jerusalem, who built a wall round Jerusalem of five thousand paces in three days, besides, thirteen towers of ten stadia in circuit. And Quintus Curtius and Arrian inform us that Alexander the Great built the walls of Alexandria, on the Tanais, which were nearly eight miles in compass, in the space of between twenty and thirty days. Nehemiah therefore had time sufficient in fifty-two days to repair and restore the walls of Jerusalem. See Calmet on this place.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Nehemiah 6:15-19

The wall was begun and finished in fifty-two days, though they rested on the sabbaths. A great deal of work may be done in a little time, if we set about it in earnest, and keep close to it. See the mischief of marrying with strangers. When men once became akin to Tobiah, they soon became sworn to him. A sinful love leads to a sinful league. The enemy of souls employs many instruments, and forms many projects, to bring reproach on the active servants of God, or to take them from their work. But we should follow the example of Him who laid down his life for the sheep. Those that simply cleave to the Lord and his work will be supported.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Nehemiah 6:15 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַתִּשְׁלַם֙va.tish.Lamand it was completeH7999

הַֽחוֹמָ֔הha.cho.Mahthe wallH2346

בְּעֶשְׂרִ֥יםbe.'es.Rimon [day] twentyH6242

וַחֲמִשָּׁ֖הva.cha.mi.Shahand fiveH2568

לֶאֱל֑וּלle.'e.Lulof ElulH435

לַחֲמִשִּׁ֥יםla.cha.mi.Shimto fiftyH2572

וּשְׁנַ֖יִםu.she.Na.yimand twoH8147

יֽוֹם\׃\ \פYomday[s]H3117

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Nehemiah 6:15

Psalms 1:3
And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
Nehemiah 4:1-2
But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews. And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?
Daniel 9:25
Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
Ezra 6:15
And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

wall.
Ezr 6:15; Ps 1:3; Da 9:25
fifty.
4:1,2

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Context

Nehemiah 6:14
My God, think thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and on the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.
Nehemiah 6:15
So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.
Nehemiah 6:16
And it came to pass, that when all our enemies heard thereof, and all the heathen that were about us saw these things, they were much cast down in their own eyes: for they perceived that this work was wrought of our God.

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Nehemiah 6:15 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	Acabóse pues el muro el veinticinco del mes de Elul, en cincuenta y dos días.
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	Et la muraille fut achevée le vingt-cinquième jour du mois d’Élul, en 52 jours.
German Elberfelder 1871	Und die Mauer wurde vollendet am 25. des Elul, in 52 Tagen.
Latin Clementine Vulgate	Completus est autem murus vigesimo quinto die mensis Elul, quinquaginta duobus diebus.