Thematic Bible: Also called geshem, a samaritan


Thematic Bible



Now when word was given to Sanballat and Tobiah and to Geshem the Arabian and to the rest of our haters, that I had done the building of the wall and that there were no more broken places in it (though even then I had not put up the doors in the doorways); Verse ConceptsGatesPersecution, Nature OfCity GatesTelling What People Did

And in it these words were recorded: It is said among the nations, and Geshem says so, that you and the Jews are hoping to make yourselves free from the king's authority; and that this is why you are building the wall: and they say that it is your purpose to be their king; Verse ConceptsRumours

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain