Nehemiah 2:17

King James 2000

Then said I unto them, You see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we are no more a reproach.

Cross References

Ezra 9:9

For we were slaves; yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to rebuild the house of our God, and to repair its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 1:3

And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great distress and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.

Nehemiah 2:13

And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even to the jackal’s well, and to the refuse gate, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down; and the gates thereof were consumed with fire.

Nehemiah 2:16

And the rulers knew not where I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that did the work.

Nehemiah 3:15

But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of Col-hozeh, the ruler of the district of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and the wall of the pool of Shelah by the king’s garden, and unto the stairs that go down from the city of David.

Psalm 102:15

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

Psalm 44:13

You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

Psalm 44:14

You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the people.

Psalm 79:12

And render unto our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, with which they have reproached you, O Lord.

Psalm 79:4

We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

Jeremiah 24:9

And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their harm, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.

Lamentations 2:2

The Lord has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied: he has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; he has brought them down to the ground: he has polluted the kingdom and its princes.

Lamentations 3:51

My eye affects my heart because of all the daughters of my city.

Ezekiel 5:14

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

Micah 7:11

In the day that your walls are to be built, in that day shall your boundaries be far extended.

1 Samuel 11:2

And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes, and lay it for a reproach upon all Israel.