Nehemiah 4:11

Our 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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In The King James Version

And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease.

In Context

10Judah 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.”

12When the Jews who lived by them came, they said to us ten times from all places, “Wherever you turn, they will attack us.”

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Cross References

Judges 20:29Israel set ambushes all around Gibeah.

Psalms 56:6They conspire and lurk, watching my steps. They are eager to take my life.

Acts 23:12When it was day, some of the Jews banded together and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

1 Thessalonians 5:2For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.

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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