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Nehemiah Chapter 4

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Nehemiah

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Nehemiah 4 describes the people of Jerusalem who have returned from exile and are facing a severe famine with little food and unfinished walls. They complain to their leaders that there is no provision and pray for help, and God answers by sending a great harvest to feed them.

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(1) 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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Nehemiah 2:10Nehemiah 2:19Ezra 4:1Ezra 4:2Ezra 4:3Ezra 4:4Ezra 4:5Acts 5:17Psalms 35:15Psalms 35:16Psalms 44:13Psalms 44:14

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Ezra 6:14Nehemiah 6:1II Chronicles 26:6Esther 8:17John 19:21

(2) 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?
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Ezra 4:9Ezra 4:10I Samuel 14:11I Samuel 14:12I Samuel 17:43I Samuel 17:44Zechariah 12:8I Corinthians 1:27Nehemiah 12:27Nehemiah 12:43Nehemiah 4:10Ezekiel 37:3

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I Chronicles 29:2I Kings 7:10Joshua 7:25I Kings 5:17I Samuel 16:5Ezekiel 39:17

(3) 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.
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Nehemiah 2:10Nehemiah 2:19Nehemiah 6:1I Kings 20:10I Kings 20:18II Kings 18:23

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Exodus 20:25Isaiah 28:16Jeremiah 51:22Jeremiah 51:23II Chronicles 26:6

(4) 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:
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Psalms 123:3Psalms 123:4I Samuel 17:26Psalms 79:12Proverbs 3:34Hosea 12:14

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Daniel 11:18Ezekiel 16:53Ezekiel 33:11Judges 5:30Jeremiah 30:16

(5) 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.
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Psalms 59:5Psalms 59:6Psalms 59:7Psalms 59:8Psalms 59:9Psalms 59:10Psalms 59:11Psalms 59:12Psalms 59:13Psalms 69:27Psalms 109:14Jeremiah 18:23

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Isaiah 1:4Deuteronomy 32:16Deuteronomy 32:21

(6) So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.
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Nehemiah 6:15I Chronicles 29:3I Chronicles 29:14I Chronicles 29:17I Chronicles 29:18II Chronicles 29:36Psalms 110:3II Corinthians 8:16II Corinthians 8:17Philippians 2:13Hebrews 13:21

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II Chronicles 26:6II Chronicles 32:5Nehemiah 12:38II Chronicles 27:3Numbers 22:24Numbers 22:25

(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,
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Nehemiah 4:1Nehemiah 2:10Nehemiah 2:19Judges 10:7Judges 10:8Judges 10:9Judges 10:10Judges 10:11Judges 10:12Judges 10:13Judges 10:14Judges 10:15

(8) And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.
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Psalms 2:1Psalms 2:2Psalms 2:3Psalms 83:3Psalms 83:4Psalms 83:5Psalms 83:6Psalms 83:7Psalms 83:8Psalms 83:9Psalms 83:10Psalms 83:11

(9) Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
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Nehemiah 4:11Genesis 32:9Genesis 32:10Genesis 32:11Genesis 32:12Genesis 32:28II Kings 19:14II Kings 19:15II Kings 19:16II Kings 19:17II Kings 19:18II Kings 19:19

(10) 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.
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Numbers 13:31Numbers 32:9Psalms 11:1Psalms 11:2Haggai 1:2II Chronicles 2:18Ezekiel 29:18

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Isaiah 25:4II Chronicles 2:6II Chronicles 26:6

(11) 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.
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Judges 20:29Judges 20:30Judges 20:31Judges 20:32Judges 20:33Judges 20:34Judges 20:35Judges 20:36Judges 20:37Judges 20:38Judges 20:39Judges 20:40

(12) 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.
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Genesis 31:7Genesis 31:41Numbers 14:22Job 19:3

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Song of Solomon 6:13II Kings 20:10Jeremiah 15:19Jeremiah 44:14Ezekiel 16:55Malachi 3:7

(13) 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.
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Genesis 32:13Genesis 32:14Genesis 32:15Genesis 32:16Genesis 32:17Genesis 32:18Genesis 32:19Genesis 32:20II Chronicles 32:2II Chronicles 32:3II Chronicles 32:4II Chronicles 32:5

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II Kings 15:35I Kings 13:33I Kings 22:43II Kings 12:3II Kings 14:4II Kings 15:4

(14) 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.
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Numbers 14:9Deuteronomy 1:21Deuteronomy 1:29Deuteronomy 1:30Deuteronomy 20:3Deuteronomy 20:4Joshua 1:9II Chronicles 20:15II Chronicles 20:16II Chronicles 20:17II Chronicles 32:7Psalms 27:1

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Jeremiah 29:6Nehemiah 2:16Exodus 18:21Exodus 18:25Jeremiah 42:11Ezekiel 2:6

(15) 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.
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II Samuel 15:31II Samuel 17:14Job 5:12Job 5:13Psalms 33:10Psalms 33:11Proverbs 21:30Isaiah 8:10Isaiah 44:25Lamentations 3:37Lamentations 3:38I Corinthians 3:19

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II Chronicles 26:6II Samuel 17:14

(16) 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.
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Nehemiah 4:23Nehemiah 5:15Nehemiah 5:16Psalms 101:6

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Exodus 25:10Exodus 37:1Nehemiah 4:21Exodus 24:6Exodus 25:17Exodus 30:13

(17) 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.
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Daniel 9:25I Corinthians 9:12I Corinthians 16:9I Corinthians 16:13II Corinthians 6:7Ephesians 6:11Ephesians 6:12Ephesians 6:13Ephesians 6:14Ephesians 6:15Ephesians 6:16Ephesians 6:17

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II Chronicles 26:6

(18) For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded. And he that sounded the trumpet was by me.
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Numbers 10:9II Chronicles 13:12II Chronicles 13:13II Chronicles 13:14II Chronicles 13:15II Chronicles 13:16II Chronicles 13:17

(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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Nehemiah 2:16Exodus 18:21Exodus 18:25Nehemiah 4:14II Chronicles 26:6

(20) In what place therefore ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither unto us: our God shall fight for us.
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Exodus 14:14Exodus 14:25Deuteronomy 1:30Deuteronomy 3:22Deuteronomy 20:4Joshua 23:10Zechariah 14:3

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Leviticus 25:9

(21) So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.
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I Corinthians 15:10I Corinthians 15:58Galatians 6:9Colossians 1:29

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Nehemiah 4:16Leviticus 6:20Exodus 25:10Exodus 37:1

(22) 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.
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Nehemiah 11:1Nehemiah 11:2

(23) 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.
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Nehemiah 5:16Nehemiah 7:2Judges 9:48I Corinthians 15:10Judges 5:11

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