But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.
Sanballat
Nehemiah 2:10,19 When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, …
Ezra 4:1-5 Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children …
Acts 5:17 Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which …
mocked
Psalm 35:15,16 But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: …
Psalm 44:13,14 You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to …
Matthew 27:29 And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it on his head, …
Hebrews 11:36 And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yes, moreover …
And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?
the army
Ezra 4:9,10 Then wrote Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the …
feeble
1 Samuel 14:11,12 And both of them discovered themselves to the garrison of the Philistines: …
1 Samuel 17:43,44 And the Philistine said to David, Am I a dog, that you come to me …
Zechariah 12:8 In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and …
1 Corinthians 1:27 But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise…
fortify themselves. Heb. leave to themselves. sacrifice
Nehemiah 12:27,43 And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites …
revive
Nehemiah 4:10 And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, …
Ezekiel 37:3-13 And he said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, …
Habakkuk 3:2 O LORD, I have heard your speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive …
Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.
Tobiah
Nehemiah 2:10,19 When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, …
Nehemiah 6:1 Now it came to pass when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, …
1 Kings 20:10,18 And Benhadad sent to him, and said, The gods do so to me, and more also…
2 Kings 18:23 Now therefore, I pray you, give pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, …
Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:
And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders.
cover not
Psalm 59:5-13 You therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit …
Psalm 69:27 Add iniquity to their iniquity: and let them not come into your righteousness.
Psalm 109:14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and …
Jeremiah 18:23 Yet, LORD, you know all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive …
2 Timothy 4:14 Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according …
their sin
Psalm 51:1,9 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your loving kindness…
Isaiah 43:25 I, even I, am he that blots out your transgressions for my own sake, …
Isaiah 44:22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as …
before the builders
Isaiah 36:11,12 Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah to Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray …
So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.
and all the wall (That is, the whole circuit of the wall was completed unto half the intended height.)
for the people (The original is very emphatic, wyhee laiv leam laasoth, 'for the people had a heart to work.' Their heart was engaged in it, and they went about it cheerfully and vigorously.)
had a mind
Nehemiah 6:15 So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month …
1 Chronicles 29:3,14,17,18 Moreover, because I have set my affection to the house of my God, …
2 Chronicles 29:36 And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had prepared …
Psalm 110:3 Your people shall be willing in the day of your power, in the beauties …
2 Corinthians 8:16,17 But thanks be to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart …
Philippians 2:13 For it is God which works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
Hebrews 13:21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you …
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,
Sanballat
Nehemiah 4:1 But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we built the …
Nehemiah 2:10,19 When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, …
the Ammonites
Judges 10:7 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them …
Judges 11:12 And Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, …
1 Samuel 11:2 And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this condition will I make …
2 Samuel 10:1-5 And it came to pass after this, that the king of the children of …
2 Kings 24:2 And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of …
2 Chronicles 20:1 It came to pass after this also, that the children of Moab, and the …
Ezekiel 25:3-7 And say to the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus said …
Amos 1:13 Thus said the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, …
Ashdodites
Nehemiah 13:23,24 In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of …
1 Samuel 5:1,2 And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Ebenezer …
2 Chronicles 26:6-8 And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and broke down …
Jeremiah 25:20 And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, …
Amos 1:8 And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holds …
Amos 3:9 Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land …
Zechariah 9:5,6 Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; Gaza also shall see it, and be very …
heard
Ezra 4:4-16 Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, …
Ezra 5:8 Be it known to the king, that we went into the province of Judea, …
were made up. Heb. ascended. then
Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your …
Acts 4:17,18 But that it spread no further among the people, let us straightly …
Acts 5:33 When they heard that, they were cut to the heart, and took counsel to slay them.
Revelation 12:12,13,17 Therefore rejoice, you heavens, and you that dwell in them…
And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.
all
Psalm 2:1-3 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing…
Psalm 83:3-11 They have taken crafty counsel against your people, and consulted …
Isaiah 8:9,10 Associate yourselves, O you people, and you shall be broken in pieces; …
Acts 23:12,13 And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound …
hinder it. Heb. make an error to it
Jeremiah 20:10 For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say …
Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
Nevertheless
Nehemiah 4:11 And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till …
Genesis 32:9-12,28 And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father …
2 Kings 19:14-19 And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and …
Psalm 50:15 And call on me in the day of trouble: I will deliver you, and you …
Psalm 55:16-22 As for me, I will call on God; and the LORD shall save me…
Luke 6:11,12 And they were filled with madness; and communed one with another …
Acts 4:24-30 And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with …
set a watch
Matthew 26:41 Watch and pray, that you enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed …
Luke 21:36 Watch you therefore, and pray always, that you may be accounted worthy …
1 Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring …
And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.
And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease.
And it came to pass, that when the Jews which dwelt by them came, they said unto us ten times, From all places whence ye shall return unto us they will be upon you.
ten times
Genesis 31:7,41 And your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; …
Numbers 14:22 Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, …
Job 19:3 These ten times have you reproached me: you are not ashamed that …
From all places, etc. or, That from all places ye must return to us. ye shall return (Houbigant, Michaelis, and Dathe contend, that instead of tashoovoo, 'ye shall return,' we should read chalshevoo, 'they designed.'
Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
Therefore
Genesis 32:13-20 And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came …
2 Chronicles 32:2-8 And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was …
Psalm 112:5 A good man shows favor, and lends: he will guide his affairs with discretion.
Matthew 10:16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the middle of wolves: be you …
1 Corinthians 14:20 Brothers, be not children in understanding: however, in malice be …
in the lower places. Heb. from the lower parts of the place, etc. their swords
Nehemiah 4:17,18 They which built on the wall, and they that bore burdens, with those …
Songs 3:7,8 Behold his bed, which is Solomon's; three score valiant men are about …
Ephesians 6:11-20 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against …
And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them: remember the Lord, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.
Be ye not afraid
Numbers 14:9 Only rebel not you against the LORD, neither fear you the people …
Deuteronomy 1:21,29,30 Behold, the LORD your God has set the land before you: go up and …
Deuteronomy 20:3,4 And shall say to them, Hear, O Israel, you approach this day to battle …
Joshua 1:9 Have not I commanded you? Be strong and of a good courage; be not …
2 Chronicles 20:15-17 And he said, Listen you, all Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem, …
2 Chronicles 32:7 Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king …
Psalm 27:1 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD …
Psalm 46:11 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
Isaiah 41:10-14 Fear you not; for I am with you: be not dismayed; for I am your God: …
Matthew 10:28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul…
Hebrews 13:6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not …
remember
Psalm 20:7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember …
Psalm 77:10-20 And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of …
Psalm 143:5 I remember the days of old; I meditate on all your works; I muse …
Isaiah 51:12,13 I, even I, am he that comforts you: who are you, that you should …
Isaiah 63:11-13 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying…
great
Nehemiah 1:5 And said, I beseech you, O LORD God of heaven, the great and terrible God…
Deuteronomy 10:17 For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great …
Job 37:22 Fair weather comes out of the north: with God is terrible majesty.
Psalm 65:5 By terrible things in righteousness will you answer us, O God of …
Psalm 66:3,5 Say to God, How terrible are you in your works! through the greatness …
Isaiah 64:1-3 Oh that you would rend the heavens, that you would come down, that …
Nahum 1:2-7 God is jealous, and the LORD revenges; the LORD revenges, and is …
Hebrews 12:20,21,28,29 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much …
fight
2 Samuel 10:12 Be of good courage, and let us play the men for our people, and for …
And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known unto us, and God had brought their counsel to nought, that we returned all of us to the wall, every one unto his work.
God
2 Samuel 15:31 And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators …
2 Samuel 17:14 And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai …
Job 5:12,13 He disappoints the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot …
Psalm 33:10,11 The LORD brings the counsel of the heathen to nothing: he makes the …
Proverbs 21:30 There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.
Isaiah 8:10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nothing; speak the word, …
Isaiah 44:25 That frustrates the tokens of the liars, and makes diviners mad; …
Lamentations 3:37,38 Who is he that said, and it comes to pass, when the Lord commands it not…
1 Corinthians 3:19,20 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, …
every one
Mark 13:34 For the Son of Man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his …
Romans 12:11 Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
1 Thessalonians 4:11 And that you study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and …
And it came to pass from that time forth, that the half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the habergeons; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah.
my servants
Nehemiah 4:23 So neither I, nor my brothers, nor my servants, nor the men of the …
Nehemiah 5:15,16 But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable …
Psalm 101:6 My eyes shall be on the faithful of the land, that they may dwell …
and the other half (This is no unusual thing in Palestine, even at the present day; people sowing their seed are often attended by armed men, to prevent the Arabs from robbing them of it.)
habergeons (Habergeon, from the Teutonic hals, the neck, and bergen, to cover, defend, may be considered as signifying a breast-plate, though the Franco-Gallic hautbergon signifies a coat of mail; the original shiryon, we have already seen, denotes a corslet.)
They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon.
bare burdens
Nehemiah 4:10 And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, …
every one (That is, he had his arms at hand; and was as fully prepared to fight as to work. The builders could not possibly have made any progress, if they had literally held a weapon in one of their hands; but the expression is evidently figurative, implying that every man was a much a soldier as a builder.)
with one
Daniel 9:25 Know therefore and understand…
1 Corinthians 9:12 If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? …
1 Corinthians 16:9,13 For a great door and effectual is opened to me, and there are many …
2 Corinthians 6:7 By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness …
Ephesians 6:11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against …
Philippians 1:28 And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an …
2 Timothy 2:3 You therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
2 Timothy 4:7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded. And he that sounded the trumpet was by me.
And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, The work is great and large, and we are separated upon the wall, one far from another.
In what place therefore ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither unto us: our God shall fight for us.
So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.
Likewise at the same time said I unto the people, Let every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and labour on the day.
So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of us put off our clothes, saving that every one put them off for washing.
