Nehemiah 4:10

English Standard Version 2016

In Judah it was said, “The strength of those who bear the burdens is failing. There is too much rubble. By ourselves we will not be able to rebuild the wall.”

Cross References

Haggai 1:2

“Thus says the Lord of hosts: These people say the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the Lord.”

Ezekiel 29:18

“Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre. Every head was made bald, and every shoulder was rubbed bare, yet neither he nor his army got anything from Tyre to pay for the labor that he had performed against her.

2 Chronicles 2:18

Seventy thousand of them he assigned to bear burdens, 80,000 to quarry in the hill country, and 3,600 as overseers to make the people work.

Numbers 32:9

For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the people of Israel from going into the land that the Lord had given them.

Numbers 13:31

Then the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are.”

2 Chronicles 34:13

were over the burden-bearers and directed all who did work in every kind of service, and some of the Levites were scribes and officials and gatekeepers.

Nehemiah 4:2

And he said in the presence of his brothers and of the army of Samaria, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they restore it for themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish up in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, and burned ones at that?”

Nehemiah 4:9

And we prayed to our God and set a guard as a protection against them day and night.

Nehemiah 4:11

And our enemies said, “They will not know or see till we come among them and kill them and stop the work.”