King James Version
Nehemiah 6:15 in the King James Version says “So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.” — study this verse from Nehemiah chapter 6 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.”
Nehemiah 6:15 · KJV
Therefore was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might reproach me.
My God, think thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and on the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.
So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.
And it came to pass, that when all our enemies heard thereof, and all the heathen that were about us saw these things, they were much cast down in their own eyes: for they perceived that this work was wrought of our God.
Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters unto Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came unto them. sent: Heb. multiplied their letters passing to Tobiah
KJV Study — Public Domain
“was finished”
H7999to be safe (in mind, body or estate); figuratively, to be (causatively, make) completed; by implication, to be friendly; by extension, to reciprocate
“days”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
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