4Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.
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Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.
Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.
And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth. …
And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.
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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