Nehemiah 4:9
But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
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Genesis 32:9And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, O LORD, who said to me, Return to thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will do thee good,
2 Kings 19:14And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it. And Hezekiah went up to the house of LORD, and spread it before LORD.
Job 5:12He frustrates the devices of the crafty so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
Psalms 50:15And call upon me in the day of trouble. I will deliver thee, and thou shall glorify me.
Proverbs 22:12The eyes of LORD preserve knowledge, but he overthrows the words of the treacherous man.
Luke 6:11But they were filled with fury, and deliberated with each other what they might do to Jesus.
Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 4:8-16
7 But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth, 8 And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it. 9 Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them. 10 And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is… Read the whole commentary →