Nehemiah 2:20

Then I answered them, “The God of heaven will give us success. We are his servants and we will arise and build. But you have no share, no right, and no historic claim in Jerusalem.”

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Then answered I them, and said unto them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.

In Context

19But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the Ammonite servant, and Geshem the Arabian heard about it, they mocked and ridiculed us, and they said, “What are you doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”

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Cross References

Exodus 28:29When Aaron goes into the holy place, he must carry the names of the people of Israel over his heart in the breastpiece for decision making, as a continuing memorial before Yahweh.

Leviticus 24:7You must put pure incense along each row of loaves as a representative offering. This incense will be burnt for Yahweh.

2 Chronicles 26:5He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who taught him to honor God + 26:5 The Hebrew text can be read either, to honor God , or in the fear of God or in seeing God . Scholars are divided. . As long as he sought Yahweh, God made him prosper.

Nehemiah 1:4As soon as I heard these words, I sat down and wept, and for days I continued grieving and fasting and praying before the God of heaven.

Esther 4:11She said, “All the king's servants and the people of the king's provinces know that if any man or woman goes to the king inside the inner courtyard without being summoned, there is only one law: That he must be put to death—except for anyone to whom the king holds out the golden scepter so that he may live. I have not been called to come to the king these thirty days.”

Psalms 35:27Let those who desire my vindication shout for joy and be glad; 1 may they say continually, “Yahweh be praised, 1 he who delights in the welfare of his servant.” 1

Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 2:10-20

Nehemiah's Journey to Jerusalem; the Malice of Sanballat, &c. ( b. c. 445.) 9 Then I came to the governors beyond the river, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me. 10 When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel. 11 So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days. 12 And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me;… Read the whole commentary →

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