Nehemiah 4:10
Then said Judah, The strength of the burden-bearer faileth, and, the rubbish, aboundeth,—and, we, are not able to build at the wall;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
9howbeit we prayed unto our God,—and set a watch against them, day and night, because of them.
Cross References
Numbers 13:31But the men who went up with him said, We cannot go up against the people,—for stronger, are they than we.
2 Chronicles 2:18And he made up from among them—seventy thousand, to bear burdens, and eighty thousand to hew in the mountain,—and three thousand and six hundred, as overseers, to keep the people at work.
Ezekiel 29:18Son of man Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, hath made his army undergo a long service against Tyre, Every head, hath been made bald, and, Every shoulder, worn bare,— But pay, hath he had none nor hath his army, out of Tyre, for the service wherewith he hath served against it.
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 →