So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.
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Gill's Exposition
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…
Barnes' Notes
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…
Adam Clarke
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…
Nehemiah is here finishing the wall of Jerusalem, and yet still has trouble created him by his enemies.
I. Tobiah, and the other adversaries of the Jews, had the mortification to see the wall built…
The Completion of the Wall (Neh 6:15); and the impression produced (Neh 6:16): treasonable correspondence (Neh 6:17-19)
15. Elul This month, which is the same as the Assyrian U-lu-lu, corresponds to…