Teks -- Nehemiah 4:1 (NET)

Opposition to the Work Continues

4:1 Now when Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall he became angry and was quite upset. He derided the Jews,

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

JFB: Neh 4:1 - when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth

The Samaritan faction showed their bitter animosity to the Jews on discovering the systematic design of refortifying Jerusalem. Their opposition was confined at first to scoffs and insults, in heaping which the governors made themselves conspicuous, and circulated all sorts of disparaging reflections that might increase the feelings of hatred and contempt for them in their own party. The weakness of the Jews in respect of wealth and numbers, the absurdity of their purpose apparently to reconstruct the walls and celebrate the feast of dedication in one day, the idea of raising the walls on their old foundations, as well as using the charred and mouldering debris of the ruins as the materials for the restored buildings, and the hope of such a parapet as they could raise being capable of serving as a fortress of defense--these all afforded fertile subjects of hostile ridicule.

TSK: Neh 4:1 - Sanballat // mocked

Sanballat : Neh 2:10, Neh 2:19; Ezr 4:1-5; Act 5:17

mocked : Psa 35:15, Psa 35:16, Psa 44:13, Psa 44:14; Mat 27:29; Heb 11:36

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Gill: Neh 4:1 - But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall // he was wroth, and took great indignation // and mocked the Jews

But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall,.... Or were building it; for as yet it was not finished, see Neh 4:6,

he was wroth, and took great indignation; inwardly, though outwardly he pretended to treat the work with contempt, as if it never would be accomplished, which yet he feared:

and mocked the Jews; as a set of foolish builders, and unable to finish what they had begun.