Nehemiah 6

Nehemiah 6:2

Ono] A Valley, and a Citie in Benjamin, chap. XI. 35. 1 Chron. VIII. 12. not farre from Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 6:5

the fifth time] Thinking to prevaile by impudent importunity.

Nehemiah 6:6

their King] A charge of high treason. So Ezra. IV. 12, 13. John XIX. 12.

Nehemiah 6:10

Shemajah] His vile hypocrisie, false prophesie, corruption by bribery, so attempting strongly to hinder or destroy Nehemiah, and his godly proceedings.

Nehemiah 6:15

Elul] About our August.

in fifty and two dayes] Wondrous speed. See the Annotations. This was in the twentieth or one and twentieth year of Artaxerxes, and first year of Nehemiah’s Government.

Nehemiah 6:17

Nobles of Judah] Guilty likely some way in the matter of marrying strange wives, ver. 18.