Nehemiah 4:10

Judah said, “The strength of the bearers of burdens is fading and there is much rubble, so that we are not able to build the wall.”

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In The King James Version

And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.

In Context

9But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night because of them.

11Our adversaries said, “They will not know or see, until we come in among them and kill them, and cause the work to cease.”

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Cross References

Numbers 13:31But the men who went up with him said, “We aren’t able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.”

2 Chronicles 2:18He set seventy thousand of them to bear burdens, eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred overseers to assign the people their work.

Ezekiel 29:18“Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre. Every head was made bald, and every shoulder was worn; yet he had no wages, nor did his army, from Tyre, for the service that he had served against it.

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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