Nehemiah 2:17

A Conservative Version

Then I said to them, Ye see the evil condition that we are in, how Jerusalem lays waste, and the gates of it are burned with fire. Come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem that we be no more a reproach.

Cross References

Ezekiel 5:14

Moreover I will make thee a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all who pass by.

Nehemiah 1:3

And they said to me, The remnant who are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach. Also the wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and the gates of it are burned with fire.

Psalm 79:4

We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are round about us.

Lamentations 3:51

My eye stirs my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.

Lamentations 2:2

LORD has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied. In his wrath he has thrown down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah. He has brought them down to the ground. He has profaned the kingdom and the rulers th

Jeremiah 24:9

I will even give them up to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.

Psalm 79:12

and render to our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached thee, O LORD,

Psalm 44:13

Thou make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are round about us.

1 Samuel 11:2

And Nahash the Ammonite said to them, On this condition will I make it with you, that all your right eyes be put out, and I will lay it for a reproach upon all Israel.

Nehemiah 2:13

And I went out by night by the valley gate, even toward the jackal's well and to the dung gate, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates of it were consumed with fire.

Nehemiah 2:16

And the rulers did not know where I went, or what I did, neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the ranking men, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest who did the work.

Nehemiah 3:15

And Shallun the son of Col-hozeh, the ruler of the district of Mizpah, repaired the fountain gate. He built it, and covered it, and set up the doors of it, the bolts of it, and the bars of it, and the wall of the pool of Shelah by

Ezra 9:9

For we are bondmen, yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended loving kindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the ruins of it, a

Psalm 44:14

Thou make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

Psalm 102:15

So the nations shall fear the name of LORD, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.

Micah 7:11

A day for building thy walls! In that day the decree shall be far removed.