They sent to me four times like this; and I answered them the same way.
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They sent to me four times like this; and I answered them the same way.
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Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.
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And they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.
Cross-references (8)
Passages linked to Nehemiah 6:4 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Luke 18:5 yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.’ ”
- Judges 16:6 Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and what you might be bound to afflict you.”
- Judges 16:10 Delilah said to Samson, “Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies. Now please tell me how you might be bound.”
- Judges 16:15-20 She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.” When she pressed him daily with her words and urged him, his soul was troubled to death. He told her all his heart and said to her, “No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me and I will become weak, and be like any other man.” When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, “Come up this once, for he has told me all his heart.” Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought the money in their hand. She made him sleep on her knees; and she called for a man and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him. She said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” He awoke out of his sleep, and said, “I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free.” But he didn’t know that Yahweh had departed from him.
- Proverbs 7:21 With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.
- Proverbs 14:15 A simple man believes everything, but the prudent man carefully considers his ways.
- 1 Corinthians 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
- Galatians 2:5 to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Neh 6:4 Yet they sent unto me four times…
Neh 6:4 Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.
Ver. 4. Yet they sent unto me four times] As thinking to prevail by their importunity. This wicked men have learned from their master Beelzebub, the lord of flies, as the name (απομυιος) signifieth, or master fly, that will not off the bait till beaten, and hardly then. Sin hath painted an impudency in some men’s faces; and it appears they are past all grace, because shameless, Et pudet non esse impudentes, it is not shameful to be impudent. saith Austin.
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And I answered them after the same manner] Nehemiah stood immoveable as a rock; he was homo quadratus, man, four-square, not to be altered, but firm to his principles, resolute in his holy purposes. We may style him (as Theodoret doth Athanasius) the bulwark of truth (προβολον της αληθειας), the Church’s champion. Nec tremere, nec timide, may seem to have been his motto, neither temerarious nor timorous.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Yet they sent unto me four times after this…
Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort,.... Being very desirous of getting him into their hands, and therefore were very pressing and importunate:
and I answered them after the same manner; every time as before, he being as much bent on finishing the work as they were to divert him from it.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Four times, &c. - We must never be overcome…
Four times, &c. - We must never be overcome by the greatest importunity, to do anything ill or imprudent: but when we are attacked with the same temptation, still resist it with the same reason and resolution.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Neh 6:4. Yet they sent unto me four times…
Neh 6:4. Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort — We must never be overcome by the greatest importunity to do any thing ill or imprudent: but when we are attacked with the same temptation, still resist it with the same reason and resolution.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 4. yet] R.V. And. The A.V. suggests the thought…
4. yet] R.V. And. The A.V. suggests the thought which the copula does not express, that in spite of such a rebuff Sanballat and his companions were not daunted.
after this sort … after the same manner] The Hebrew phrase is the same in both cases. As it occurs again in the next verse (Neh_6:5, ‘in like manner’), though the nature of the message is different, we clearly must not press the words here to mean a literal repetition of the request and answer. It only indicates a general similarity in the character of the four applications, and in the answers which they elicited. Cf. for the use of this phrase 1Sa_17:27; 1Sa_17:30; 2Sa_15:6.
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