Nehemiah 3:5 KJV — MannaFest

Nehemiah 3:5

And next unto them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles put not their necks to the work of their Lord.

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ASV

And next unto them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles put not their necks to the work of their lord.

WEB

Next to him, the Tekoites made repairs, but their nobles did not put their shoulders to the work under their supervisors.

YLT

and by his hand have the Tekoites strengthened, and their honourable ones have not brought in their neck to the service of their Lord.

DBT

And next to them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles put not their necks to the work of their Lord.

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Nehemiah — The walls rebuilt in fifty-two days; the covenant renewed; the reforms enacted and then re-enacted when Nehemiah returns to find them slipping. A book about civic and spiritual reconstruction side by side.

Author: Nehemiah (chs. 1–7, 11–13 largely first-person memoir); Ezra-material probably compiled alongside
Date: Events 445–432 BC; final compilation late-5th century BC

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Nehemiah 3:27
After them the Tekoites repaired another piece, over against the great tower that lieth out, even unto the wall of Ophel.
2 Samuel 14:2
And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:
Judges 5:23
Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.
Nehemiah 6:17
Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters unto Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came unto them.
2 Chronicles 11:6
He built even Beth–lehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,

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), that is, they would not come under the yoke of an obligation to this service; as if the dignity and liberty of their peerage were their discharge from serving God and doing good, which are indeed the highest honour and the truest freedom.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Of their Lord - Of God, whom they owned for their Lord, whose work this was, because it had proceeded thus far by his singular providence: and because it was done for the defense of the city, and people, and temple of God. And therefore they are branded to all posterity.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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