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Nehemiah 4:19

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Then I said to the nobles, the officials, and the rest of the people: “The work is great and extensive, and we are spread out far from one another along the wall.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers and to the rest of the people, The work is great and large, and we are separated upon the wall, one far from another:

KJV

And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, The work is great and large, and we are separated upon the wall, one far from another.

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This verse in Nehemiah 4

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

When they acted as workmen, it was requisite they should be dispersed wherever there was work to do; but when as soldiers it was requisite they should come into close order, and be found in a body. Thus should the labourers in Christ's building be ready to unite against a common foe.

This site's exposition

The work is great and extensive

on Nehemiah 4:19-20

The work is too great for every family to defend itself. Nehemiah gives one sign to call them together, and grounds the plan in one line: "Our God will fight for us!" The horn gathers a scattered workforce to a single point without anyone leaving his post before the signal.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

2 And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?

quarantine:scripture (2026-07-29) — verbatim-scripture

And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people,.... See Gill on Neh 4:14, the work is great and large; the building of the wall all around the city of Jerusalem: and we are separated upon the wall one far from another; some at work on one part of it, and some at another, so that the distance between one another, at least in the further part, was very considerable.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

Nehemiah's vigilance anticipated every difficulty, his prudent measures defeated every obstruction, and with astonishing rapidity this Jerusalem was made again "a city fortified."

The words behind it

18 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וָאֹמַ֞רand I said

    vaomarH559 →5305 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הַחֹרִ֤יםthe nobles

    hachorimH2715 →13 times

  • וְאֶל־and to

    veel-H413 →5510 times

  • הַסְּגָנִים֙the officials

    haseganimH5461 →17 times

  • וְאֶל־and to

    veel-H413 →5510 times

  • יֶ֣תֶר[the] rest of

    yeterH3499 →102 times

  • הָעָ֔םthe people

    haamH5971 →1873 times

  • הַמְּלָאכָ֥הthe work

    hamelakhahH4399 →167 times

  • הַרְבֵּ֖ה[is] much

    harbehH7235 →227 times

  • וּרְחָבָ֑הand extensive

    urechavahH7342 →21 times

  • וַאֲנַ֗חְנוּand we

    vaanachnuH587 →120 times

  • נִפְרָדִים֙[are] separate

    nifradimH6504 →

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • הַ֣חוֹמָ֔הthe wall

    hachomahH2346 →133 times

  • רְחוֹקִ֖יםdistant

    rechokimH7350 →

  • אִ֥ישׁeach

    ʾishH376 →1663 times

  • מֵאָחִֽיו׃from brother his

    meachivH251 →630 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

About Nehemiah

Nehemiah Views the Ruins of Jerusalem's Walls, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Nehemiah Views the Ruins of Jerusalem's Walls, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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