Nehemiah 4:9
So we prayed to our God and posted a guard against them day and night.
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8and all of them conspired to come and fight against Jerusalem and create a hindrance.
Cross References
Genesis 32:9Then Jacob declared, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, the LORD who told me, ‘Go back to your country and to your kindred, and I will make you prosper,’
2 Kings 19:14So Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers, read it, and went up to the house of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD.
Job 5:12He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.
Psalms 50:15Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”
Proverbs 22:12The LORD’s eyes keep watch over knowledge, but He frustrates the words of the faithless.
Luke 6:11But the scribes and Pharisees were filled with rage and began to discuss 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 →