Nehemiah 4:9
But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night because of them.
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Genesis 32:9Jacob said, “God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD, who said to me, ‘Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good,’
2 Kings 19:14Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to the LORD’s house, and spread it before the LORD.
Job 5:12He frustrates the plans of the crafty, so that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.
Psalms 50:15Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
Proverbs 22:12The LORD’s eyes watch over knowledge, but he frustrates the words of the unfaithful.
Luke 6:11But they were filled with rage, and talked with one another 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 →