Nehemiah 1:3

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

They said to me, ‘The remnant in the province,  who survived the exile, are in great trouble and disgrace. Jerusalem’s wall has been broken down, and its gates have been burned.’

Cross References

Nehemiah 2:17

So I said to them, ‘You see the trouble we are in. Jerusalem lies in ruins and its gates have been burned.  Come, let’s rebuild Jerusalem’s wall,  so that we will no longer be a disgrace.’

2 Kings 25:10

The whole Chaldean army with the captain of the guards tore down the walls  surrounding Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 7:6

These are the people of the province who went up among the captive exiles deported by King Nebuchadnezzar  of Babylon. Each of them returned to Jerusalem and Judah, to his own town.

Nehemiah 2:13

I went out at night through the Valley Gate towards the Serpent’s  Well and the Dung Gate,  and I inspected the walls of Jerusalem that had been broken down and its gates that had been destroyed by fire.

Nehemiah 2:3

and replied to the king, ‘May the king live for ever! Why should I  not be sad when the city where my ancestors are buried lies in ruins and its gates have been destroyed by fire? ’

Ezra 5:8

Let it be known to the king that we went to the house of the great God in the province of Judah. It is being built with cut  stones, and its beams are being set in the walls. This work is being done diligently and succeeding through the people’s efforts.

Lamentations 5:1

Lord, remember what has happened to us. Look, and see our disgrace!

Lamentations 3:61

Lord, you heard their insults, all their plots against me.

Lamentations 1:7

During the days of her affliction and homelessness Jerusalem remembers all her precious belongings that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into the adversary’s hand, she had no one to help. The adversaries looked at her, laughing over her downfall.

Jeremiah 52:14

The whole Chaldean army with the captain of the guards tore down all the walls surrounding Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 42:18

‘For this is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Just as my anger and fury were poured out on Jerusalem’s residents,  so will my fury pour out on you if you go to Egypt. You will become an example for cursing, scorn,  execration, and disgrace, and you will never see this place again.”

Jeremiah 39:8

The Chaldeans next burned down the king’s palace and the people’s houses and tore down the walls of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 29:18

I will pursue them with sword, famine, and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth #– #a curse and a desolation, an object of scorn and a disgrace among all the nations  where I have banished them.

Jeremiah 24:9

I will make them an object of horror  and a disaster to all the kingdoms of the earth, an example for disgrace, scorn, ridicule,  and cursing, wherever I have banished them.

Jeremiah 5:10

Go up among her vineyard terraces and destroy them, but do not finish them off. Prune away her shoots, for they do not belong to the  Lord.

Isaiah 43:28

So I defiled the officers of the sanctuary, and set Jacob apart for destruction and Israel for scorn.

Isaiah 5:5

Now I will tell you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will remove its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.

Esther 1:1

These events took place during the days of Ahasuerus,  who ruled 127 provinces  from India to Cush.

Nehemiah 11:3

These are the heads of the province who stayed in Jerusalem  (but in the villages of Judah each lived on his own property in their towns   #– #the Israelites, priests, Levites, temple servants, and descendants of Solomon’s servants   #– #

Ezra 2:1

These  now are the people of the province who came from those captive exiles King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon  had deported to Babylon.  They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town.

1 Kings 9:7

I will cut off Israel from the land I gave them,  and I will reject  the temple I have sanctified for my name.  Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.

Proverbs 25:28

A person who does not control his temper is like a city whose wall is broken down.

Lamentations 2:9

Zion’s gates have fallen to the ground; he has destroyed and shattered the bars on her gates. Her king and her leaders live among the nations, instruction  is no more, and even her prophets receive no vision from the  Lord.

Leviticus 26:31

I will reduce your cities to ruins and devastate your sanctuaries. I will not smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.

Leviticus 26:33

But I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw a sword to chase after you. So your land will become desolate, and your cities will become ruins.

2 Chronicles 36:19

Then the Chaldeans burned God’s temple.  They tore down Jerusalem’s wall, burned all its palaces, and destroyed all its valuable articles.