Nehemiah 4:2 - The Scriptures 1998

² And he spoke before his brothers and the army of Shomeron, and said, “What are these feeble Yehuḏ

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² And he said before his brethren and the army of Samaria, What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they restore things [at will and by themselves]? Will they [try to bribe their God] with sacrifices? Will they finish up in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, seeing they are burned?

American Standard Version (1901)

² And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What are these feeble Jews doing? 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 rubbish, seeing they are burned?

Common English Bible

² saying in the presence of his associates and the army of Samaria: “What are those feeble Jews doing? Will they restore things themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they finish it in a day? Will they revive the stones from the piles of rubble, even though they are burned?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

² And he said, before his brothers and a crowd of the Samaritans: "What are the foolish Jews doing? Can it be that the Gentiles will allow them? Will they sacrifice and finish in one day? Do they have the ability to make stones out of piles of dust that have been burned up?"

Nehemiah 4:2 Cross References

Ezra 4:4

And it came to be that the people of the land were weakening the hands of the people of Yehuḏ

Nehemiah 12:27

And at the dedication of the wall of Yerushalayim they sought out the Lĕ

Nehemiah 12:43

And on that day they brought great offerings and rejoiced, for Elohim had made them rejoice with great joy. And the women and the children also rejoiced, so that the joy of Yerushalayim was heard far away.

Nehemiah 4:10

And Yehuḏ

Nehemiah 6:15

And the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth of the month of Elul, in fifty-two days.

Psalm 83:4

They have said, “Come, And let us wipe them out as a nation, And let the name of Yisra’ĕ

Jeremiah 26:18

“Miḵ

Jeremiah 33:24

“Have you not observed what these people have spoken, saying, ‘The two clans which יהוה  has chosen have been rejected by Him’? So they have despised My people, no more to be a nation before them.

Daniel 9:25

“Know, then, and understand: from the going forth of the command to restore and build Yerushalayim until Messiah the Prince is seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It shall be built again, with streets and a trench, but in times of affliction.

Habakkuk 3:2

O יהוה, I have heard your report, I was afraid. O יהוה, renew Your work in the midst of the years! Make it known in the midst of the years. In wrath remember compassion.

Zechariah 12:8

“In that day יהוה  shall shield the inhabitants of Yerushalayim. And the feeble among them in that day shall be like Dawiḏ

Zechariah 4:10

“For who has despised the day of small beginnings? They shall rejoice when they see the plumb-line in the hand of Zerubbaḇ

1 Corinthians 1:27

But Elohim has chosen the foolish matters of the world to put to shame the wise, and Elohim has chosen the weak of the world to put to shame the strong.