Nehemiah 2:19

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17 Then I said to them, “You see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lies¹ waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come and let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer be ^aa reproach.”

18 And I told them of ^athe hand of my God which had been good upon me, and also of the king’s words that he had spoken to me. So they said, “Let us rise up and build.” Then they ^bset their hands to this good work.

19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard of it, they laughed at us and despised us, and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? ^aWill you rebel against the king?”

20 So I answered them, and said to them, “The God of heaven Himself will prosper us; therefore we His servants will arise and build, ^abut you have no heritage or right or memorial in Jerusalem.”

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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Nehemiah 2:19

Geshem the Arabian - Some chief of the Arabs contiguous to Samaria, who had joined with Sanballat and Tobiah to distress the Jews, and hinder their work.

Will ye rebel against the king ? - This they said in order to raise jealousies in the king' s mind, and induce him to recall his ordinance.

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