Nehemiah 4:9
And we prayed to our God, and we stationed guards upon the wall, day and night, against them.
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Genesis 32:9And Jacob said: “God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, O Lord who said to me: ‘Return to your land, and to the place of your nativity, and I will do well for you.’
2 Kings 19:14And so, when Hezekiah had received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and had read it, he ascended to the house of the Lord, and he spread it out before the Lord.
Job 5:12He dispels the thoughts of the spiteful, lest their hands be able to complete what they had begun.
Psalms 50:15I will teach the unjust your ways, and the impious will be converted to you.
Proverbs 22:12The eyes of the Lord watch over knowledge. And the words of the iniquitous are supplanted.
Luke 6:11Then they were filled with madness, and they discussed with one another, what, in particular, they might do about 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 →