Nehemiah 13:2 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

² And I came to Jerusalem, and I understood the evil that Eliasib had done for Tobias, to make him a storehouse in the courts of the house of God.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² For they met not the Israelites with food and drink but hired Balaam to curse them; yet our God turned the curse into a blessing. [Num. 22:3-11; Deut. 23:5, 6.]

American Standard Version (1901)

² because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, to curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.

Common English Bible

² This is because they hadn’t met the Israelites with food and water but instead hired Balaam against them to curse them. Yet our God turned the curse into a blessing.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² because they did not meet the sons of Israel with bread and water, and they hired Balaam against them, to curse them. But our God turned the curse into a blessing.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and water: and they hired against them Balaam, to curse them; and our God turned the curse into blessing.

Nehemiah 13:2 Cross References

Psalm 109:28

The Lord hath sworn, and he will not repent: Thou art a priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedech.

Micah 6:5

3 And I therefore began to strike thee with desolation for thy sins.

Numbers 23:18

3 There is no soothsaying in Jacob, nor divination in Israel. In their times it shall be told to Jacob and to Israel what God hath wrought.

Matthew 25:40

You know that after two days shall be the pasch, and the son of man shall be delivered up to be crucified:

Deuteronomy 23:3

They that are born of them, in the third generation shall enter into the church of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 23:4

When thou goest out to war against thy enemies, thou shalt keep thyself from every evil thing.

Deuteronomy 23:5

0 If there be among you any man, that is defiled in a dream by night, he shall go forth out of the camp.

2 Peter 2:15

That you may be mindful of those words which I told you before from the holy prophets, and of your apostles, of the precepts of the Lord and Saviour.