Nehemiah 5:1-18

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Nehemiah 5:1-19

Continual Opposition To The Building Of The Wall And Problems Related To It (Nehemiah 4:1 to Nehemiah 6:14 ). Meanwhile the work did not go on unopposed. Powerful men were involved in seeking to ensure that the walls were not rebuilt, and that Jerusalem was not re-established. We have already had three of these described to us in Nehemiah 2:19. They were formidable opponents. We now learn about their activity in more detail. o Initially they operated by using ridicule and threats (Nehemiah... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Nehemiah 5:6-13

Nehemiah Expresses His Anger, Admits His Own Part In Causing The Problem, And Propounds A Solution (Nehemiah 5:6-13 ). When Nehemiah heard their pleas, he was angry, both with himself and with others. He immediately recognised that he and other comparatively wealthy Jews had, probably mainly inadvertently, but some out of sheer greed, been overlooking the needs of the poor. Now he called on them to put this right. The fact that the wealthy responded so readily does suggest that most of their... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Nehemiah 5:14-19

Nehemiah Continued On As Governor In The Same Spirit That He Had Exhorted On The Wealthy, Refusing To Allow His Position To Be A Charge On The People (Nehemiah 5:14-19 ). It is probable that having fulfilled his original intention of restoring the walls of Jerusalem Nehemiah returned to the king accompanied by his escort, and this may well have resulted in his preparing a report which makes up a large part of the first section of the book of Nehemiah. But it appears that the king then... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Nehemiah 5:1-13

Nehemiah 5:1-1 Chronicles : . Distress among the Jews.— Neither this nor the next section, Nehemiah 5:14-Psalms : (the two belong closely together) can be in their right place. Nehemiah 5:1-1 Chronicles : deals with the economic straits to which the Jews had been reduced through want of food; yet the text nowhere hints that their evil plight was in any way the result of the building of the walls; besides, this building did not take long enough (see Nehemiah 6:15) to occasion such widespread... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Nehemiah 5:14-19

Nehemiah 5:14-Psalms : . Nehemiah Enumerates the Outstanding Features of his Beneficent Rule.— The main points here are that Nehemiah and his subordinate officials had not taken advantage of their undoubted right of exacting provisions from the people (“ I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor,” i.e. the sustenance which he, as the governor, had a right to claim); secondly, he recalls how tenaciously he clung to his purpose of the rebuilding of the walls ( Nehemiah 5:16);... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Nehemiah 5:1

To wit, the great and rich who had oppressed their brethren. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Nehemiah 5:2

We, our sons, and our daughters, are many; which is in itself a blessing, but to us is turned into a curse. We take up corn for them, i.e. we are forced by our and their necessities to take up corn, to wit, upon their own unreasonable terms, as is here implied, and plainly expressed in the following relation. Others, Let us take up, &c., i.e. seeing we do the public work, let provision be made for us and our children out of the public stock. But this is no petition, but a complaint, as will... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Nehemiah 5:3

Which might easily happen, both from the multitude of the people now in and near Jerusalem, and from their building work, which wholly took them up, and kept them from taking care of their own families, and from the expectation and dread of their enemies’ invasion, which hindered them from going abroad to fetch in provision, and the people round about from bringing it in to them; or from divers other causes. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Nehemiah 5:4

The kings tribute was laid upon them all. See Ezra 4:13; Ezra 7:24 read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Nehemiah 5:5

Our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren; we are of the same nature, and nation, and religion with them although they treat us as if we were beasts or heathens, forgetting both humanity and God’s law, Deuteronomy 15:7. We bring into bondage; we are compelled to sell them for our subsistence. Our sons and our daughters; which was an evidence of their great necessity, because their daughters were more tender, and weak, and unfit for bond-service, and more exposed to injuries, than their sons.... read more

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