Nehemiah 4:9

(4:3) But we prayed unto our God, and set a watch over them day and night, because of the others.

Leeser Tanakh

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 to fight against Jerusalem, and to do it an injury.

10(4:4) And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of the burden is failing, and there is much rubbish; and we are not able to build on the wall.

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Cross References

Genesis 32:9And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the Lord who saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy birthplace, and I will deal well with thee:

2 Kings 19:14And Hezekiah took the letters out of the hand of the messengers, and read them: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the Lord, and spread them out before the Lord.

Job 5:12[But] who frustrateth the plans of the crafty, so that their hands cannot execute their well-devised counsel;

Psalms 50:15And call on me on the day of distress: I will deliver thee,— and so wilt thou glorify me.”

Proverbs 22:12The eyes of the Lord guard knowledge, and he overturneth the words of the treacherous.

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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