Nehemiah 4:2

Bible in Basic English 1965

And in the hearing of his countrymen and the army of Samaria he said, What are these feeble Jews doing? will they make themselves strong? will they make offerings? will they get the work done in a day? will they make the stones which have been burned come again out of the dust?

Cross References

Ezra 4:4

Then the people of the land made the hands of the people of Judah feeble, troubling them with fear in their building;

Nehemiah 12:27

And when the time came for the wall of Jerusalem to be made holy, they sent for the Levites out of all their places to come to Jerusalem, to keep the feast with joy, and with praise and melody, with brass and corded instruments of music.

Nehemiah 12:43

And on that day they made great offerings and were glad; for God had made them glad with great joy; and the women and the children were glad with them: so that the joy of Jerusalem came to the ears of those who were far off.

Nehemiah 4:10

And Judah said, The strength of the workmen is giving way, and there is much waste material; it is impossible for us to put up the wall.

Nehemiah 6:15

So the wall was complete on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty-two days.

Psalm 83:4

They have said, Come, let us put an end to them as a nation; so that the name of Israel may go out of man's memory.

Jeremiah 26:18

Micah the Morashtite, who was a prophet in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, said to all the people of Judah, This is what the Lord of armies has said: Zion will become like a ploughed field, and Jerusalem will become a mass of broken walls, and the mountain of the house like the high places of the woodland.

Jeremiah 33:24

Have you taken note of what these people have said, The two families, which the Lord took for himself, he has given up? This they say, looking down on my people as being, in their eyes, no longer a nation.

Daniel 9:25

Have then the certain knowledge that from the going out of the word for the building again of Jerusalem till the coming of a prince, on whom the holy oil has been put, will be seven weeks: in sixty-two weeks its building will be complete, with square and earthwork.

Habakkuk 3:2

O Lord, word of you has come to my ears; I have seen your work, O Lord; when the years come near make it clear; in wrath keep mercy in mind.

Zechariah 12:8

In that day the Lord will be a cover over the people of Jerusalem; and he who is feeble among them in that day will be as strong as David, and the family of David will be as God, as the angel of the Lord before them.

Zechariah 4:10

For who has had a poor opinion of the day of small things? for they will be glad when they see the weighted measuring-line in the hand of Zerubbabel. Then he said in answer to me, These seven lights are the eyes of the Lord which go quickly up and down through all the earth.

1 Corinthians 1:27

But God made selection of the foolish things of this world so that he might put the wise to shame; and the feeble things that he might put to shame the strong;