Nehemiah 4:8
and they all conspired together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion amongst us.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.
In Context
9But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night because of them.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:29Then I said to you, “Don’t be terrified. Don’t be afraid of them.
2 Chronicles 32:7“Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or dismayed because of the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude who is with him; for there is a greater one with us than with him.
Psalms 2:1Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
Isaiah 8:9Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! Dress for battle, and be shattered!
Daniel 9:25“Know therefore and discern that from the going out of the commandment to restore and build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the prince, will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.
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 →