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Nehemiah Chapter 4

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NEHEMIAH

Nehemiah 4

1But when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, then was he wroth and sore grieued, and mocked the Iewes,
Nehemiah 2:10, Hebrews 11:36, Nehemiah 2:10, Hebrews 11:36, Acts 5:17
2And sayde before his brethren and the armie of Samaria, thus he sayde, What doe these weake Iewes? wil they fortifie them selues? wil they sacrifice? will they finish it in a day? will they make the stones whole againe out of the heapes of dust, seeing they are burnt?
1 Corinthians 1:27, Ezra 4:9, Ezra 4:10, 1 Corinthians 1:27, Ezra 4:9
3And Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and said, Although they buylde, yet if a foxe goe vp, he shall euen breake downe their stonie wall.
Nehemiah 2:19, Nehemiah 2:19, 1 Kings 20:10, Nehemiah 2:10, 2 Kings 18:23
4Heare, O our God (for we are despised) and turne their shame vpon their owne head, and giue them vnto a pray in the lande of their captiuitie,
Psalms 79:12, Psalms 79:12, Psalms 123:3, Psalms 123:4, Psalms 123:3
5And couer not their iniquitie, neither let their sinne be put out in thy presence: for they haue prouoked vs before the builders.
Jeremiah 18:23, Psalms 109:14, Jeremiah 18:23, Psalms 109:14, Psalms 69:27
6So we built the wall, and all the wall was ioyned vnto the halfe thereof, and the heart of the people was to worke.
Philippians 2:13, Philippians 2:13, Hebrews 13:21, 1 Chronicles 29:3, Nehemiah 6:15
7But when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodims heard that the walles of Ierusalem were repayred, (for the breaches began to be stopped) then they were very wroth,
Nehemiah 4:1, Nehemiah 2:10, Nehemiah 4:1, Nehemiah 2:10, Acts 5:33
8And conspired all together to come and to fight against Ierusalem, and to hinder them.
Psalms 83:3, Psalms 83:11, Psalms 83:3, Psalms 83:11, Psalms 2:1
9The we prayed vnto our God, and set watchmen by them, day and night, because of them.
1 Peter 5:8, 1 Peter 5:8, Acts 4:24, Acts 4:30, Acts 4:24
10And Iudah said, The strength of the bearers is weakened, and there is much earth, so that we are not able to build the wall.
Numbers 32:9, 2 Chronicles 2:18, Ezekiel 29:18, Psalms 11:1, Psalms 11:2
11Also our aduersaries had sayde, They shall not knowe, neither see, till we come into the middes of them and slay them, and cause the worke to cease.
Isaiah 47:11, Psalms 56:6, Acts 23:21, 1 Thessalonians 5:2, 2 Samuel 17:2
12But when the Iewes (which dwelt beside them) came, they told vs ten times, From all places whence ye shall returne, they wil be vpon vs.
Genesis 31:41, Job 19:3, Genesis 31:7, Numbers 14:22, Genesis 31:41
13Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall vpon the toppes of the stones, and placed the people by their families, with their swordes, their speares and their bowes.
Nehemiah 4:17, Nehemiah 4:18, Ephesians 6:11, Ephesians 6:20, Nehemiah 4:17
14Then I behelde, and rose vp, and said vnto the Princes, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not afrayde of them: remember the great Lord, and fearefull, and fight for your brethren, your sonnes, and your daughters, your wiues, and your houses.
Numbers 14:9, 2 Samuel 10:12, Numbers 14:9, 2 Samuel 10:12, Isaiah 41:10
15And when our enemies heard that it was knowen vnto vs, then God brought their counsell to nought, and we turned all againe to the wall, euery one vnto his worke.
2 Samuel 17:14, 2 Samuel 17:14, Romans 12:11, Romans 12:11, Job 5:12
16And from that day, halfe of the yong men did the labour, and the other halfe part of them helde the speares, and shieldes, and bowes, and habergins: and the rulers stoode behinde all the house of Iudah.
Nehemiah 4:23, Nehemiah 4:23, Psalms 101:6, Nehemiah 5:15, Nehemiah 5:16
17They that buylded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, and they that laded, did the worke with one hand, and with the other helde the sworde.
2 Timothy 4:7, 2 Corinthians 6:7, 2 Timothy 2:3, 2 Timothy 4:7, 2 Corinthians 6:7
18For euery one of the buylders had his sworde girded on his loynes, and so buylded: and he that blewe the trumpet, was beside me.
Numbers 10:9, 2 Chronicles 13:12, 2 Chronicles 13:17, Numbers 10:9, 2 Chronicles 13:12
19Then saide I vnto the Princes, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, The worke is great and large, and we are separated vpon the wall, one farre from another.
20In what place therefore ye heare the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither vnto vs: our God shall fight for vs.
Exodus 14:14, Exodus 14:14, Deuteronomy 20:4, Deuteronomy 1:30, Deuteronomy 20:4
21So we laboured in the worke, and halfe of them helde the speares, from the appearing of the morning, till the starres came foorth.
Galatians 6:9, Galatians 6:9, Colossians 1:29, Colossians 1:29, 1 Corinthians 15:58
22And at the same time said I vnto the people, Let euery one with his seruant lodge within Ierusalem, that they may be a watch for vs in the night, and labour in the day.
Nehemiah 11:1, Nehemiah 11:2, Nehemiah 11:1, Nehemiah 11:2
23So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my seruants, nor the men of the warde, (which followed me) none of vs did put off our clothes, saue euery one put them off for washing.
Judges 5:11, Judges 9:48, 1 Corinthians 15:10, Nehemiah 5:16, Nehemiah 7:2

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