19Also they reported his good deeds before me, and uttered my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.
The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. …
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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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