尼希米记 4:2

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

在他的兄弟和撒瑪利亞的軍隊面前，說：“這些軟弱的猶大人在作甚麼呢？想自己修築城牆嗎？想要獻祭嗎？想要在一天之內完成嗎？想要使廢土堆中被火燒過的石頭復活嗎？”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
对 他 弟 兄 和 撒 玛 利 亚 的 军 兵 说 ： 这 些 软 弱 的 犹 大 人 做 甚 麽 呢 ？ 要 保 护 自 己 麽 ？ 要 献 祭 麽 ？ 要 一 日 成 功 麽 ？ 要 从 土 堆 里 拿 出 火 烧 的 石 头 再 立 墙 麽 ？

Contextual Overview

¹ When Sanballat heard we were rebuilding the wall, he was very angry, even furious. He made fun of the Jewish people. ² He said to his friends and those with power in Samaria, "What are these weak Jews doing? Will they rebuild the wall? Will they offer sacrifices? Can they finish it in one day? Can they bring stones back to life from piles of trash and ashes?" ³ Tobiah the Ammonite, who was next to Sanballat, said, "If a fox climbed up on the stone wall they are building, it would break it down." ⁴ I prayed, "Hear us, our God. We are hated. Turn the insults of Sanballat and Tobiah back on their own heads. Let them be captured and stolen like valuables. ⁵ Do not hide their guilt or take away their sins so that you can't see them, because they have insulted the builders." ⁶ So we rebuilt the wall to half its height, because the people were willing to work.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the army: Ezra 4:9, Ezra 4:10

feeble: 1 Samuel 14:11, 1 Samuel 14:12, 1 Samuel 17:43, 1 Samuel 17:44, Zechariah 12:8, 1 Corinthians 1:27

fortify themselves: Heb. leave to themselves

sacrifice: Nehemiah 12:27, Nehemiah 12:43

revive: Nehemiah 4:10, Ezekiel 37:3-13, Habakkuk 3:2

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 17:42 - disdained 2 Kings 18:23 - I will deliver 1 Chronicles 11:8 - repaired Nehemiah 6:15 - fifty Psalms 14:6 - Ye Psalms 102:14 - General Psalms 123:3 - for we are Psalms 137:3 - wasted us Proverbs 11:12 - that Ecclesiastes 9:10 - thy hand Isaiah 36:8 - and I Jeremiah 9:11 - Jerusalem Jeremiah 26:18 - Jerusalem Jeremiah 33:24 - thus Lamentations 3:14 - General Zechariah 4:10 - despised John 4:9 - for John 18:35 - Amos I

Cross-References

Genesis 3:23
So the Lord God forced Adam out of the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.

Genesis 4:25
Adam had sexual relations with his wife Eve again, and she gave birth to a son. She named him Seth and said, "God has given me another child. He will take the place of Abel, who was killed by Cain."

Genesis 4:26
Seth also had a son, and they named him Enosh. At that time people began to pray to the Lord .

Genesis 9:20
Noah became a farmer and planted a vineyard.

Genesis 37:13
Israel said to Joseph, "Go to Shechem where your brothers are grazing the flocks." Joseph answered, "I will go."

Genesis 47:3
The king said to the brothers, "What work do you do?" And they said to him, "We, your servants, are shepherds, just as our ancestors were."

Exodus 3:1
One day Moses was taking care of Jethro's flock. (Jethro was the priest of Midian and also Moses' father-in-law.) When Moses led the flock to the west side of the desert, he came to Sinai, the mountain of God.

Psalms 127:3
Children are a gift from the Lord ; babies are a reward.

Amos 7:15
But the Lord took me away from tending the flock and said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.'

Luke 11:51
from the killing of Abel to the killing of Zechariah, who died between the altar and the Temple. Yes, I tell you that you who are alive now will be punished for them all.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he spake before his brethren,.... Tobiah the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, and perhaps some other governors of the king of Persia in those parts:

and before the army of Samaria: which, and the inhabitants of it, were implacable enemies of the Jews:

and said, what do these feeble Jews? what do they pretend to do, or what can they do?

will they fortify themselves? by building a wall about their city; can they think they shall ever be able to do this, or that it will be allowed?

will they sacrifice? meaning not their daily sacrifice, as Jarchi, that they had done a long time, but for the dedication of their building, as Aben Ezra:

will they make an end in a day? they seem to be in as great a hurry and haste as if they meant it; and indeed, unless they can do it very quickly, they never will: they will soon be stopped:

will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burnt? where will they find materials? do they imagine that they can make burnt stones firm and strong again, or harden the dust and rubbish into stones, or make that, which is as if dead, alive? to do this is the same as to revive a dead man, and they may as well think of doing the one as the other; burnt stones being reckoned as dead, as Eben Ezra observes.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Nehemiah 4:2. The army of Samaria — As he was governor, he had the command of the army, and he wished to excite the soldiers to second his views against Nehemiah and his men.

What do these feeble Jews? — We may remark here, in general, that the enemies of God's work endeavour by all means to discredit and destroy it, and those who are employed in it.

1. They despise the workmen: What do these feeble Jews?

2. They endeavour to turn all into ridicule: Will they fortify themselves?

3. They have recourse to lying: If a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.

4. They sometimes use fair but deceitful speeches; see Nehemiah 6:2, &c.