Nehemiah 4:6

6 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.

Nehemiah 4:6 Meaning and Commentary

Nehemiah 4:6

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.

Nehemiah 4:6 In-Context

4 Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn back their reproach upon their own head, and give them up for a spoil in a land of captivity;

5 and cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee; for they have provoked [thee] to anger before the builders.

6 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.

7 But it came to pass that, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, [and] that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth;

8 and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.