Nehemiah 4:6
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New International Version (©2011)
So we rebuilt the wall till all of it reached half its height, for the people worked with all their heart.

New Living Translation (©2007)
At last the wall was completed to half its height around the entire city, for the people had worked with enthusiasm.

English Standard Version (©2001)
So we built the wall. And all the wall was joined together to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
So we built the wall and the whole wall was joined together to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
So we rebuilt the wall until the entire wall was joined together up to half its height, for the people had the will to keep working.

International Standard Version (©2012)
So we rebuilt the wall, completing it halfway up, because the people were committed to working.

NET Bible (©2006)
So we rebuilt the wall, and the entire wall was joined together up to half its height. The people were enthusiastic in their work.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
So we rebuilt the wall, which was rebuilt to about half its [original] height. The people worked with determination.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.

American King James Version
So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together to the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.

American Standard Version
So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto half the height thereof: for the people had a mind to work.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So we built the wall, and joined it all together unto the half thereof: and the heart of the people was excited to work.

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

English Revised Version
So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto half the height thereof: for the people had a mind to work.

Webster's Bible Translation
So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to the half of it, for the people had a mind to work.

World English Bible
So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half [the height] of it: for the people had a mind to work.

Young's Literal Translation
And we build the wall, and all the wall is joined -- unto its half, and the people have a heart to work.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

4:1-6 Many a good work has been looked upon with contempt by proud and haughty scorners. Those who disagree in almost every thing, will unite 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 a 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 think that the hearts of those sinners were desperately hardened, else he would not have prayed that their sins might never be blotted out. Good 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.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 6. - So built we the wall. Rather, "and we (still) built the wall" Insults and gibes had no effect on us - did not touch us. Despite of them we steadily kept on our building, and the result was that soon all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof - the whole continuous line of wall was completed to half the contemplated height. For the people had a mind to work. Literally, "there was a heart to the people to work." They wrought, as we should say, "with a will"- they had their heart in the work. Insult and gibe rather stimulated than daunted them.

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Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

So built we the wall,.... 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

6. all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof—The whole circuit of the wall had been distributed in sections to various companies of the people, and was completed to the half of the intended height.

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The Work is Ridiculed
…5And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before you: for they have provoked you to anger before the builders. 6So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together to the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work. 7But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,

Nehemiah 4:5 Do not cover up their guilt or blot out their sins from your sight, for they have thrown insults in the face of the builders.
Nehemiah 4:7 But when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites and the people of Ashdod heard that the repairs to Jerusalem's walls had gone ahead and that the gaps were being closed, they were very angry.
Psalm 122:3 Jerusalem is built like a city that is closely compacted together.
Haggai 1:14 So the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of the whole remnant of the people. They came and began to work on the house of the LORD Almighty, their God,