14My 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.
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Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.
Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works: …
To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and brake it.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-14)The Jews’ enemies leave no stone unturned, no way untried, to take Nehemiah off from building the wall about Jerusalem. In order to this they had tried to fetch him into the country to them, but in vain; now they try to drive him into the temple for his own safety; let him be any where but at his work. Observing him to be a cautious man, they will endeavour to gain their point by making him coward…
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