Nehemiah 4:9

(4-3) But we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.

In Context

8(4-2) and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.

10(4-4) 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.'

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Cross References

Genesis 32:9(32-10) And Jacob said: 'O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, O LORD, who saidst unto me: Return unto 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 unto the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.

Job 5:12He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands can perform nothing substantial.

Psalms 50:15And call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver thee, and thou shalt honour Me.'

Proverbs 22:12The eyes of the LORD preserve him that hath knowledge, but He overthroweth the words of the faithless man.

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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