Nehemiah 4:9
And we pray unto our God, and appoint a watch against them, by day and by night, because of them.
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Genesis 32:9And Jacob saith, 'God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Jehovah who saith unto me, Turn back to thy land, and to thy kindred, and I do good with thee:
2 Kings 19:14And Hezekiah taketh the letters out of the hand of the messengers, and readeth them, and goeth up to the house of Jehovah, and Hezekiah spreadeth it before Jehovah.
Job 5:12Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom.
Psalms 50:15And call Me in a day of adversity, I deliver thee, and thou honourest Me.
Proverbs 22:12The eyes of Jehovah have kept knowledge, And He overthroweth the words of the treacherous.
Luke 6:11and they were filled with madness, and were speaking with one 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 →