Nehemiah 2:17

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

Then I said to them, You see the evil that we are in, how Jerusalem is wasted, and its gates are burned with fire. Come and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, so that we may no longer be a reproach.

Cross References

Ezra 9:9

For we were slaves, yet our God has not left us in our bondage, but has given mercy to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to raise up the house of our God, and to make stand its ruins, and to give to us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 1:3

And they said to me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great evil and shame. The wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.

Nehemiah 2:13

And I went out by night by the Valley Gate, even before the Jackal Fountain, and to the Dung Gate. And I examined the walls of Jerusalem which were broken down, and its gates which were consumed with fire.

Nehemiah 2:16

And the rulers did not know where I had gone, or what I was doing. Yet I had not told it to the Jews, or to the priests, or to the nobles, or to the rulers, or to the rest that did the work.

Nehemiah 3:15

And the Fountain Gate was made strong by Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah. He built it and covered it, and made stand its doors, its locks, and its bars, and the wall of the Pool of Shelah by the King’s Garden, and to the stairs that go down from the City of David.

Psalm 102:15

So nations shall fear the name of Jehovah, and all the kings of the earth Your glory.

Psalm 44:13

You made us a scorn to our neighbors, a mockery and a derision to those around us.

Psalm 44:14

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

Psalm 79:12

And turn back to our neighbors sevenfold. Give into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached You, O Lord.

Psalm 79:4

We have become a shame to our neighbors a scorn and a mockery to those who are around us.

Jeremiah 24:9

I will even make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth for evil, for a reproach, and a proverb, a gibe, and a curse, there in all places where I will drive them.

Lamentations 2:2

The Lord swallowed up all of Jacob’s dwelling-places, and did not pity. In His wrath He has broken down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah. He made them touch to the earth. He has defiled the kingdom and its rulers.

Lamentations 3:51

My tear thrusts down to my soul, from all the daughters of my city.

Ezekiel 5:14

And I will give you to be a waste and a reproach among the nations that are round about you, in the eyes of all who pass by.

Micah 7:11

A day of building your walls, that day the limit shall be removed.

1 Samuel 11:2

And Nahash the Ammonite said to them, With this I will cut a covenant for you, when is dug out for you every right eye; and I will make it a reproach on all Israel.