Nehemiah 4:6 (DBY)

Passage

But we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to the half thereof; for the people had a mind to work.

Nearby Context

Nehemiah 4:4 Hear, our God, for we are despised, and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in a land of captivity!

Nehemiah 4:5 And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee; for they have provoked the builders.

Nehemiah 4:6 But we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to the half thereof; for the people had a mind to work.

Nehemiah 4:7 And it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobijah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the walls of Jerusalem were being repaired, that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,

Nehemiah 4:8 and conspired all of them together to come to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "built", "wall", "joined", "together", "half", "thereof", and "people". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "built" and "wall", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 5's "And cover not their iniquity and let..." into verse 7's "And it came to pass when Sanballat...", so "built" and "wall" belong inside that flow. In Nehemiah context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "built" and "wall" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.