Nehemiah 2:17

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

And saying to them, Ye seeing the evil which we are in it, how Jerusalem lay waste, and her gates were burnt with fire: come ye, and we will build the walls of Jerusalem, and we shall be no more a reproach.

Cross References

Ezra 9:9

For we are servants; and in our servitude God forsook us not, and he extended to us mercy before the kings of Persia, to give to us the preservation of life to set up the house of our God, and to cause its desolations to stand, and to give to us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 1:3

And they will say to me, They being left which were left of the captivity there in the province, in great evil and in reproach: and the walls of Jerusalem being broken down, and its gates were burnt with fire.

Nehemiah 2:13

And I shall go forth by the gate of the valley by night, and before the second fountain, and to the gate of the dung-hill, and I shall be watching the walls of Jerusalem that they being broken, and its gates were consumed with fire.

Nehemiah 2:16

And the prefects knew not whither I went and what I was doing: and to the Jews and to the priests and to the nobles and to the prefects, and to the rest doing the work, even thus I announced not

Nehemiah 3:15

And the gate of the fountain Shallum son of Colhozeh, ruler of the circuit of Mizpeh, held fast; he will build it and cover it, and set, it up, its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and the walls of the pool of Shiloh by the king's garden, and even to the steps going down from the city of David.

Psalm 102:15

And the nations shall fear the name of Jehovah: and all the kings of the earth thy glory

Psalm 44:13

Thou wilt set us a reproach to our neighbors, and a derision and scorn to them round about us.

Psalm 44:14

Thou wilt set us a parable among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

Psalm 79:12

And turn back to our neighbors seven fold to their bosom their reproach which they reproached thee, O Jehovah.

Psalm 79:4

We were a reproach to our neighbors, a derision and scorn to those being round about us.

Jeremiah 24:9

And I gave them for maltreatment, and for evil to all the kingdoms of the earth, for a reproach and for a parable, and for a derision, and for a curse in, all the places which I shall thrust them away there.

Lamentations 2:2

Jehovah swallowed up, not pitying, all the seats of Jacob: he pulled down in his wrath the fortresses of the daughter of Judah; he caused to touch to the earth: he defiled the kingdom and her chiefs.

Lamentations 3:51

Mine eye will glean for my soul for all the daughters of my city.

Ezekiel 5:14

And I will give thee for a waste, and for a reproach among the nations which are round about thee, before the eyes of all passing by.

Micah 7:11

The day for the building of thy walls, that day shall the law be removed far off.

1 Samuel 11:2

And Nahash the Ammonite will say to them, Upon this I will cut out to you in boring out for you every right eye, and I put it a reproach upon all Israel.