Nehemiah 4:9
howbeit we prayed unto our God,—and set a watch against them, day and night, because of them.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
8and they conspired, all of them together, to come, to fight against Jerusalem,—and to cause it harm;
Cross References
Genesis 32:9And Jacob said, God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac,—Yahweh, who wast saying unto me,—Return to thy land and to thy kindred that I may deal well with thee:
2 Kings 19:14And, when Hezekiah had received the letter at the hand of the messengers, and had read it, then went he up to the house of Yahweh, and Hezekiah spread it out before Yahweh.
Job 5:12Who doth frustrate the schemes of the crafty, that their hands cannot achieve abiding success;
Psalms 50:15Call upon me, then, in the day of distress, I will deliver thee, that thou mayest glorify me.
Proverbs 22:12The eyes of Yahweh, watch over knowledge, therefore hath he overturned the words of the treacherous.
Luke 6:11But, they, were filled with folly, and began conversing one with another, as to, what they might do with 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 →