Nehemiah 4:10

And Judah said, The strength of the workmen is giving way, and there is much waste material; it is impossible for us to put up the wall.

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In The King James Version

And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.

In Context

9But we made our prayer to God, and had men on watch against them day and night because of them.

11And those who were against us said, Without their knowledge and without their seeing us, we will come among them and put them to death, causing the work to come to a stop.

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Cross References

Numbers 13:31But the men who had gone up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.

2 Chronicles 2:18Seventy thousand he put to the work of transport, eighty thousand to cutting stone in the mountains, and three thousand, six hundred as overseers to put the people to work.

Ezekiel 29:18Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, made his army do hard work against Tyre, and the hair came off every head and every arm was rubbed smooth: but he and his army got no payment out of Tyre for the hard work which he had done against it.

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 →

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