Nehemiah 4:9
And we pray to our God, and appoint a watch against them, by day and by night, because of them.
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In Context
8and they conspire, all of them together, to come to fight against Jerusalem, and to do to it injury.
Cross References
Genesis 32:9And Jacob says, “God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, YHWH who says to me, Return to your land and to your family, and I do good with you:
2 Kings 19:14And Hezekiah takes the letters out of the hand of the messengers and reads them, and goes up to the house of YHWH, and Hezekiah spreads it before YHWH.
Job 5:12Making void thoughts of the cunning, || And their hands do not execute wisdom.
Psalms 50:15And call Me in a day of adversity, || I deliver you, and you honor Me.
Proverbs 22:12The eyes of YHWH have kept knowledge, || And He overthrows the words of the treacherous.
Luke 6:11and they were filled with madness, and were speaking with one another 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 →