17Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters unto Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came unto them.
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Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit. …
Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.
And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son in law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me.
And next unto them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles put not their necks to the work of their Lord.
And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-19)Nehemiah is here finishing the wall of Jerusalem, and yet still has trouble created him by his enemies. I. Tobiah, and the other adversaries of the Jews, had the mortification to see the wall built up, notwithstanding all their attempts to hinder it. The wall was begun and finished in fifty-two days , and yet we have reason to believe they rested on the sabbaths, Neh. 6:15. Many were employed, and…
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