Nehemiah 4:6
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New International Version (©1984)
So we rebuilt the wall till all of it reached half its height, for the people worked with all their heart.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
So we built the wall and the whole wall was joined together to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
So we rebuilt the wall, which was rebuilt to about half its [original] height. The people worked with determination.

King James Bible
So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.

American King James Version
So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together to the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.

American Standard Version
So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto half the height thereof: for the people had a mind to work.

Bible in Basic English
So we went on building the wall; and all the wall was joined together half-way up: for the people were working hard.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So we built the wall, and joined it all together unto the half thereof: and the heart of the people was excited to work.

Darby Bible Translation
But we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to the half thereof; for the people had a mind to work.

English Revised Version
So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto half the height thereof: for the people had a mind to work.

Webster's Bible Translation
So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to the half of it, for the people had a mind to work.

World English Bible
So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half [the height] of it: for the people had a mind to work.

Young's Literal Translation
And we build the wall, and all the wall is joined -- unto its half, and the people have a heart to work.

Geneva Study Bible

So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.

Wesley's Notes

4:6 The half - Unto half its height.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

6. all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof-The whole circuit of the wall had been distributed in sections to various companies of the people, and was completed to the half of the intended height.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

4:1-6 Many a good work has been looked upon with contempt by proud and haughty scorners. Those who disagree in almost every thing, will unite in persecution. Nehemiah did not answer these fools according to their folly, but looked up to God by prayer. God's people have often been a despised people, but he hears all the slights that are put upon them, and it is their comfort that he does so. Nehemiah had reason to think that the hearts of those sinners were desperately hardened, else he would not have prayed that their sins might never be blotted out. Good work goes on well, when people have a mind to it. The reproaches of enemies should quicken us to our duty, not drive us from it.


Nehemiah 4:5 Do not forgive their iniquity and let not their sin be blotted out before You, for they have demoralized the builders.
Nehemiah 4:7 Now when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites and the Ashdodites heard that the repair of the walls of Jerusalem went on, and that the breaches began to be closed, they were very angry. (NASB ©1995)

Building Built Half Half-Way Hard Heart Height Joined Mind Reached Rebuilt Thereof Together Wall Whole Work Worked Working

So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.

and all the wall (That is, the whole circuit of the wall was completed unto half the intended height.)

for the people (The original is very emphatic, wyhee laiv leam laasoth, 'for the people had a heart to work.' Their heart was engaged in it, and they went about it cheerfully and vigorously.)

had a mind 6:15 1Ch 29:3,14,17,18 2Ch 29:36 Ps 110:3 2Co 8:16,17 Php 2:13 Heb 13:21

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