3And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?
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I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all. …
The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.
Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)Two plots upon Nehemiah we have here an account of, how cunningly they were laid by his enemies and how happily frustrated by God’s good providence and his prudence. I. A plot to trepan him into a snare. The enemies had an account of the good forwardness the work was in, that all the breaches of the wall were made up, so that they considered it as good as done, though at that time the doors of the…
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