Nehemiah 4:9
Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
King James Version
In Context
8And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.
Cross References
Genesis 32:9And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:
2 Kings 19:14And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
Job 5:12He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
Psalms 50:15And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Proverbs 22:12The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor.
Luke 6:11And they were filled with madness; and communed one with another 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 →