Nehemiah 6:12

And, lo, I perceived that God had not sent him,.... Because he advised to that which was against the cause of God and true religion:

but that he pronounced the prophecy against me; for by fleeing,…

The existence of a party among the Jews who sided with Sanballat and lent themselves to his schemes, is here for the first time indicated. Compare Neh 6:14, Neh 6:17-19; Neh 13:4-5, Neh 13:28.

The Jews' enemies leave no stone unturned, no way untried, to take Nehemiah off from building the wall about Jerusalem. In order to this they had tried to fetch him into the country to them, but in…

And lo, I perceived that R.V. And I discerned, and, lo. The R.V. gives the verb the requisite sense of -recognition" as in Gen 27:23, -he discerned him not." Not as some commentators -I considered."…