Nehemiah 4:9
The we prayed vnto our God, and set watchmen by them, day and night, because of them.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
8And conspired all together to come and to fight against Ierusalem, and to hinder them.
Cross References
Genesis 32:9Moreouer Iaakob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Izhak: Lord, which saydest vnto me, Returne vnto thy coutrey and to thy kinred, and I will do thee good,
2 Kings 19:14So Hezekiah receiued the letter of the hande of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went vp into the house of the Lord, and Hezekiah spread it before the Lord.
Job 5:12He scattereth the deuices of the craftie: so that their handes can not accomplish that which they doe enterprise.
Psalms 50:15And call vpon me in the day of trouble: so will I deliuer thee, and thou shalt glorifie me.
Proverbs 22:12The eyes of the Lord preserue knowledge: but hee ouerthroweth the wordes of the transgressour.
Luke 6:11Then they were filled full of madnes, and communed one with another, what they might doe to Iesus.
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 →