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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So built we the wall. You half expected to read, “So we stopped building the wall, and answered Sanballat and Tobiah.” Not a bit of it. They kept to their work and let these two men scoff as they pleased. Neh_4:6. And all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work. They built the wall as high as they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth They were “wroth” before; now they were “very wroth.” If a work has no opposition from Satan, we may be half afraid it is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it. It is wonderful how unanimous bad men can be. It has always struck me as a very startling thing, that you have never heard of any division among the devils in hell. There are no sects among the devils; they seem to work together with an awful unanimity of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them. And Judah said, — Judah, you know, was the lion tribe. Christ is “the Lion of the tribe of Judah.” But Judah, instead of being lion-hearted, made a noise more like a mouse than a lion, for Judah said, —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The strength of the bearers of burden is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall. Poor Judah! He ought to have been bolder and braver; but he was not. It is the same today; some who seem to be pillars, prove very weak in the hour of trial, and by their cowardice discourage the rest.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease. While some were discouraging the people within the city, their enemies, without the walls, were plotting to take them by surprise, and slay them.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And it came to pass, that when the Jews which dwelt by them came, they said unto us ten times, From all places whence ye shall return unto us they will be upon you. These Jews ought to have been helping to build the wall; but they did not come to the help of the Lord’s people. Still, they were sufficiently friendly to tell Nehemiah of the plot...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows. When Nehemiah knew the danger to which the people were exposed, he took measures to guard against it. I like the common-sense of Nehemiah. He kept families together. “I set the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not afraid of them. Fear may waken us, but it must never be allowed to weaken us. We should put on the armor, and take the sword and spear and bow when there is cause for fear; we should never dream of running away.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Remember the Lord, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses. And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known unto us, and God had brought their counsel to nought, that we returned all of us to the wall, every one unto his work. There was no fighting after...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And it came to pass from that time forth, that the half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the habergeons; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah. They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded. And he that sounded the trumpet was by me. What the trumpet was for, we are told directly.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, The work is great and large, and we are separated upon the wall, one far from another. In what places, therefore ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither unto us: our God shall fight for us. That is a grand sentence. The moment you hear the trumpet, you are to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared. They made long days. Christian people do not want merely eight hours a day for Christ. We can sometimes do eighteen hours’ work for him in a day; and we wish that we could do twenty-four.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Likewise at the same time said I unto the people, Let everyone with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and labour on the day. So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of us put off our clothes. Nehemiah was a good leader. He did not say, “Go,” he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Saving that every one put them off for washing. WHICH WAS NECESSARY; FOR CLEANLINESS IS NEXT TO GODLINESS. THE LORD SENDS US MORE NEHEMIAHS, and PLENTY OF PEOPLE TO WORK WITH THEM, WHO CAN ENDURE HARDNESS AS GOOD SOLDIERS OF JESUS CHRIST, and WHO WILL ALSO BE GOOD BUILDERS OF THE CHURCH OF GOD!