尼希米记 7:4

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

城既寬闊又廣大，但城中的居民稀少；房屋還沒有建造起來。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
城 是 广 大 ， 其 中 的 民 却 稀 少 ， 房 屋 还 没 有 建 造 。

Contextual Overview

¹ After the wall had been rebuilt and I had set the doors in place, the gatekeepers, singers, and Levites were chosen. ² I put my brother Hanani, along with Hananiah, the commander of the palace, in charge of Jerusalem. Hananiah was honest and feared God more than most people. ³ I said to them, "The gates of Jerusalem should not be opened until the sun is hot. While the gatekeepers are still on duty, have them shut and bolt the doors. Appoint people who live in Jerusalem as guards, and put some at guard posts and some near their own houses." ⁴ The city was large and roomy, but there were few people in it, and the houses had not yet been rebuilt.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

large and great: Heb. broad in spaces

the houses: Isaiah 58:12, Haggai 1:4-6, Matthew 6:33

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:62 - few in number Nehemiah 11:1 - the rulers Psalms 147:2 - build Jeremiah 30:18 - the city

Cross-References

Genesis 2:5
there were still no plants on the earth. Nothing was growing in the fields because the Lord God had not yet made it rain on the land. And there was no person to care for the ground,

Genesis 6:3
The Lord said, "My Spirit will not remain in human beings forever, because they are flesh. They will live only 120 years."

Genesis 6:7
So the Lord said, "I will destroy all human beings that I made on the earth. And I will destroy every animal and everything that crawls on the earth and the birds of the air, because I am sorry I have made them."

Genesis 6:13
he said to Noah, "Because people have made the earth full of violence, I will destroy all of them from the earth.

Genesis 6:17
I will bring a flood of water on the earth to destroy all living things that live under the sky, including everything that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will die.

Genesis 7:10
Seven days later the flood started.

Genesis 7:11
When Noah was six hundred years old, the flood started. On the seventeenth day of the second month of that year the underground springs split open, and the clouds in the sky poured out rain.

Genesis 7:12
The rain fell on the earth for forty days and forty nights.

Genesis 7:17
Water flooded the earth for forty days, and as it rose it lifted the boat off the ground.

Genesis 7:21
All living things that moved on the earth died. This included all the birds, tame animals, wild animals, and creatures that swarm on the earth, as well as all human beings.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now the city was large and great,.... The circumference of it, all within the wall; for that was built on its old foundation, and enclosed as much ground as ever it did: Hecataeus b, an Heathen writer, says the circumference of Jerusalem was fifty furlongs, which was more than six miles; but Josephus c makes the circuit of it but thirty three furlongs or about six miles:

but the people were few therein; in comparison of the largeness of the place; for though there were 42,360 that came up at first with Zerubbabel, and many more with Ezra, yet a great number chose to settle in the towns and cities in the country, Jerusalem being in such a desolate condition:

and the houses were not builded; some were, but they were but few, many of them still lay in ruins.

b Apud Euseb. Praepar. par. Evangel. l. 9. c. 4. p. 408. & apud Joseph. contr. Apion, l. 1. c. 22. c De Bell. Jud. l. 5. c. 4. sect. 3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The people were few - The number of those who returned with Zerubbabel was no more than 42,360 Nehemiah 7:66. Less than 2,000 people had come with Ezra Ezra 8:1-20.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Nehemiah 7:4. The houses were not builded. — The city was not yet rebuilt, only a row of houses in the inside of the wall all round.