Chapter 6

6:6  Wherein was written, It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel: for which cause thou buildest the wall, that thou mayest be their king, according to these words.

Gashmu

Called Geshem, Nehemiah 6:2 .

6:15  So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.

Elul

sixth month i.e. September.

6:17  Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters unto Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came unto them.

Tobiah

(See Scofield "Nehemiah 2:10") .