SEV Biblia, Chapter 2:10
Y oyéndolo Sanbalat horonita, y Tobías, el siervo amonita, les disgustó en extremo que viniese alguno para procurar el bien de los hijos de Israel.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Nehemiah 2:10
Verse 10. Sanballat the Horonite] Probably a native of Horonaim, a Moabite by birth, and at this time governor of the Samaritans under the king of Persia. Tobiah the servant] He was an Ammonite; and here, under the Persian king, joint governor with Sanballat. Some suppose that the Sanballat here mentioned was the same who persuaded Alexander to build a temple on Mount Gerizim in favour of the Samaritans. Pelagius thinks there were two governors of this name.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 10. When Sanballat the Horonite , etc.] Who either presided at Horonaim, or sprung from thence, a city of Moab, ( Isaiah 15:5) and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite ; who was formerly a slave, but now raised, from a low mean estate, to be governor in the land of Ammon, though still a vassal of the king of Persia: heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there came a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel ; to which the Moabites and Ammonites were always averse, and ever bore an hatred to Israel, and envied everything that tended to their happiness.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 9-18 - When Nehemiah had considered the matter, he told the Jews that God ha put it into his heart to build the wall of Jerusalem. He does no undertake to do it without them. By stirring up ourselves and on another to that which is good, we strengthen ourselves and one anothe for it. We are weak in our duty, when we are cold and careless.
Original Hebrew
וישׁמע 8085 סנבלט 5571 החרני 2772 וטוביה 2900 העבד 5650 העמני 5984 וירע 7489 להם 1992 רעה 7451 גדלה 1419 אשׁר 834 בא 935 אדם 120 לבקשׁ 1245 טובה 2896 לבני 1121 ישׂראל׃ 3478
