Nehemiah 4:8
and they conspire, all of them together, to come in to fight against Jerusalem, and to do to it injury.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.
In Context
9And we pray unto our God, and appoint a watch against them, by day and by night, because of them.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:29'And I say unto you, Be not terrified, nor be afraid of them;
2 Chronicles 32:7'Be strong and courageous, be not afraid, nor be cast down from the face of the king of Asshur, and from the face of all the multitude that [is] with him, for with us [are] more than with him.
Psalms 2:1Why have nations tumultuously assembled? And do peoples meditate vanity?
Isaiah 8:9Be friends, O nations, and be broken, And give ear, all ye far off ones of earth, Gird yourselves, and be broken, Gird yourselves, and be broken.
Daniel 9:25And thou dost know, and dost consider wisely, from the going forth of the word to restore and to build Jerusalem till Messiah the Leader [is] seven weeks, and sixty and two weeks: the broad place hath been built again, and the rampart, even in the distress of the 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 →