Nehemiah 4:9
But we prayed to our God and set a guard as protection against them day and night because of their threat.
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8They all conspired together, and they came to fight against Jerusalem and to cause confusion in it.
Cross References
Genesis 32:9Jacob said, “God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me, 'Return to your country and to your kindred, and I will prosper you,'
2 Kings 19:14Hezekiah received this letter from the messengers and read it. Then he went up to the house of Yahweh and spread it before him.
Job 5:12He breaks the plans of the crafty people, 1 so that their hands cannot achieve success. 1
Psalms 50:15Call on me in the day of trouble; 1 I will rescue you, and you will glorify me.” 1
Proverbs 22:12The eyes of Yahweh keep watch over knowledge, 1 but he overthrows the words of the treacherous. 1
Luke 6:11But they were filled with anger and they talked to each other about 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 →