These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Nehemiah 4
Tanakh 23 verses
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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.
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- 2 And he spoke before his brethren and the army of , and said: ‘What do these feeble Jews? will they restore at will? will they ? will they make an end this day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, seeing they are burned?’
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Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said: ‘Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall break down their stone wall.’
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Hear, O our ; for we are despised; and turn back their reproach upon their own head, and give them up to spoiling in a land of captivity;
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- 5 and cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before Thee; for they have vexed Thee before the builders.
- 6 So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto half the height thereof; for the people had a mind to work.
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But it came to pass that, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the repairing of the walls of went forward, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth;
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Acts 4:17-18 Nehemiah 2:10 Nehemiah 4:1 Amos 1:13 Revelation 12:17 Nehemiah 13:23-24 Amos 3:9 Ezra 5:8 Nehemiah 2:19 2 Samuel 10:1-5 1 Samuel 5:1-2 1 Samuel 11:2 Judges 10:7-18 Genesis 3:15 Ezra 4:4-16 Acts 5:33 Revelation 12:12-13 Zechariah 9:5-6 2 Chronicles 20:1 Jeremiah 25:20 Amos 1:8 Judges 11:12-40 2 Kings 24:2 2 Chronicles 26:6-8 Ezekiel 25:3-7 -
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and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against , and to cause confusion therein.
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- 9 But we made our prayer unto our , and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
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And 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.’
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And our adversaries said: ‘They shall not , neither see, till we come into the midst of them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease.’
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And it came to pass that, when the Jews that dwelt by them came, they said unto us ten times: ‘Ye must return unto us from all places.’
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- 13 Therefore set I in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in the open places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
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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; , who is great and awful, and fight for your brethren, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your houses.’
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Numbers 14:9 2 Samuel 10:12 Isaiah 41:10-14 Hebrews 13:6 Nehemiah 1:5 Deuteronomy 10:17 Deuteronomy 1:29-30 Matthew 10:28 Psalm 65:5 Psalm 46:11 Deuteronomy 20:3-4 Hebrews 12:20-21 Isaiah 63:11-13 Psalm 20:7 Hebrews 12:28-29 Psalm 66:5 Job 37:22 2 Chronicles 20:15-17 Joshua 1:9 Psalm 143:5 2 Chronicles 32:7 Psalm 66:3 Isaiah 64:1-3 Nahum 1:2-7 Psalm 77:10-20 Psalm 27:1 Isaiah 51:12-13 Deuteronomy 1:21 - 15 And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known unto us, and had brought their counsel to nought, that we returned all of us to the wall, every one unto his work.
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And it came to pass from that time forth, that half of my servants wrought in the work, and half of them held the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the coats of mail; and the rulers were behind all the house of .
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- 17 They that builded the wall and they that bore burdens laded themselves, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other held his weapon;
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and the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded. And he that sounded the horn was by me.
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- 19 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;
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in what place soever ye the sound of the horn, resort ye thither unto us; our will fight for us.’
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So we wrought in the work; and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.
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Likewise at the same time said I unto the people: ‘Let every one with his lodge within , that in the night they may be a guard to us, and may labour in the day.’
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So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard that followed me, none of us put off our clothes, every one that went to the water had his weapon.
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