SEV Biblia, Chapter 4:6
Mas edificamos el muro, y toda la muralla fue junta hasta su mitad; y el pueblo tuvo ánimo para obrar.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Nehemiah 4:6
Verse 6. For the people had a mind to work.] The original is very emphatic: tw[l ”[l bl yhyw vayehi leb leam laasoth, "For the people had a heart to work." Their hearts were engaged in it; and where the heart is engaged, the work of God goes on well. The whole of this 6th verse is omitted by the Septuagint.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 6. So built we the wall , etc.] Went on in building it, notwithstanding their scoffs and threats: and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof ; it was carried all round the city to half the height of it: for the people had a mind to work ; their heart was in it, they had a good will to it, and they made haste to finish it.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-6 - Many a good work has been looked upon with contempt by proud an haughty scorners. Those who disagree in almost every thing, will unit 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 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 thin that the hearts of those sinners were desperately hardened, else he would not have prayed that their sins might never be blotted out. Goo 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.
Original Hebrew
ונבנה 1129 את 853 החומה 2346 ותקשׁר 7194 כל 3605 החומה 2346 עד 5704 חציה 2677 ויהי 1961 לב 3820 לעם 5971 לעשׂות׃ 6213
