the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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Nehemiah 6:15
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The wall was completed in fifty-two days, on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul.
So the wall was finished in the twenty-fifth [day] of [the month] Elul, in fifty-two days.
So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.
So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty-two days.
The wall of Jerusalem was completed on the twenty-fifth day of the month of Elul. It took fifty-two days to rebuild.
So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth day of Elul, in just fifty-two days.
So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth [day] of [the month] Elul, in fifty-two days.
So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth of the month Elul, in fifty-two days.
So the wall was finished in the twenty-fifth [day] of [the month] Elul, in fifty-two days.
Notwithstanding the wall was finished on the fiue and twentieth day of Elul, in two and fiftie dayes.
So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth of the month Elul, in fifty-two days.
So the wall was completed in fifty-two days, on the twenty-fifth of Elul.
So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty-two days.
So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth of Elul, in fifty-two days.
So the wall of Jerusalem was completed on the 25th day of the month of Elul. It had taken 52 days to finish building the wall.
So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty-two days.
After fifty-two days of work the entire wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of the month of Elul.
So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of Elul, in fifty-two days.
So the wall was restored in the twenty fifth of Elul, on the fifty second day.
And the wall was fynished on the fyue & twentyeth daye of the moneth Elul, in two and fyftye dayes.
So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.
So the wall was complete on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty-two days.
And the wall was finished on the twentie and fifth day of the moneth Elul, in fiftie and two dayes.
So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.
So the wall was finished, in the twentie and fifth day of the moneth Elul, in fiftie and two dayes.
So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty-two days.
So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.
Forsothe the wal was fillid in the fyue and twentithe dai of the monethe Ebul, in two and fifti daies.
So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth [day] of [the month] Elul, in fifty and two days.
So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth [day] of [the month] Elul, in fifty and two days.
So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of Elul, in fifty-two days.
So on October 2 the wall was finished—just fifty-two days after we had begun.
So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of the month of Elul, in fifty-two days.
So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty-two days.
So the wall was finished, on the twenty-fifth of Elul, - in fifty-two days.
But the wall was finished the five and twentieth day of the month of Elul, in two and fifty days.
So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty-two days.
And the wall is completed in the twenty and fifth of Elul, on the fifty and second day;
The wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of Elul. It had taken fifty-two days. When all our enemies heard the news and all the surrounding nations saw it, our enemies totally lost their nerve. They knew that God was behind this work.
So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth of the month Elul, in fifty-two days.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
wall: Ezra 6:15, Psalms 1:3, Daniel 9:25
fifty: Nehemiah 4:1, Nehemiah 4:2
Reciprocal: Nehemiah 4:6 - had a mind Nehemiah 7:1 - the wall
Cross-References
King Og was the last of the Rephaim, and his coffin is in the town of Rabbah in Ammon. It is made of hard black rock and is thirteen and a half feet long and six feet wide.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
So the wall was finished in the twenty fifth day of the month Elul,.... The sixth month, answering to part of August and part of September:
in fifty and two days; which Aben Ezra reckons from the time that Sanballat sent his letter to Nehemiah, when no more were wanting than to set the doors upon the gates, Nehemiah 6:1, but rather these, with Jarchi, must be reckoned from the time the building was begun; which, reckoning back from the twenty fifth of Elul, it will appear it was begun the third day of the fifth month Ab; nor need this be thought incredible, considering the number of workmen, their ardour and diligence in building, and that the walls were not wholly built all around, only repaired, and breaches made up, and much of the old materials were made use of, which were at hand, and stone unhewed, and especially being attended with the blessing of God, which succeeded the undertaking: nor are there wanting examples similar to this; and as it is observed by many from Curtius x, the walls of new Alexandria, which were sixty furlongs in length, or more than seven miles, were finished in seventeen days; if Nicephorus y is to be credited, the high walls which surrounded Constantinople, and were twenty miles in circumference, were finished in two months time. Josephus is not to be regarded, who, contrary to the Scriptures says z, this wall of Jerusalem was two years and four months in building.
x Hist. l. 7. c. 6. Justin e Trogo, l. 12. c. 5. y Hist. l. 14. c. 1. z Antiqu. l. 11. c. 5. sect. 8.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Elul - The sixth month, corresponding to the latter part of August and the beginning of September.
In fifty and two days - Josephus states that the repairs of the wall occupied two years and four months. But Nehemiah’s narrative is thoroughly consistent with itself, and contains in it nothing that is improbable. The walls everywhere existed at the time that he commenced his task, and only needed repairs. The work was partitioned among at least 37 working parties, who labored simultaneously, with material ready at hand; and, notwithstanding all menaces, uninterruptedly.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 15. The twenty and fifth - of - Elul — This Jewish month answers to a part of our August and September.
Fifty and two days. — I see no difficulty in supposing that several thousand workmen, each of whom was working as for God, should be able to complete this wall in fifty-two days. There is little doubt that several parts of the old wall were entire; in many places the foundations still remained; there were all the materials of the old wall still at hand; and though they had to clear and carry away much rubbish, yet they do not appear to have had any stones to quarry. The work mentioned here was little when compared to what Caesar did in Gaul and other places; and to what Titus did at Jerusalem, who built a wall round Jerusalem of five thousand paces in three days, besides, thirteen towers of ten stadia in circuit. And Quintus Curtius and Arrian inform us that Alexander the Great built the walls of Alexandria, on the Tanais, which were nearly eight miles in compass, in the space of between twenty and thirty days. Nehemiah therefore had time sufficient in fifty-two days to repair and restore the walls of Jerusalem. See Calmet on this place.
