Nehemiah 2:17

Lighthouse Bible 2006

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

Cross References

Ezra 9:9

For we were slaves; yet our God has not forsaken us in our slavery, but has extended mercy to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give 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 affliction 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 before the dragon well, and to the dung 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 did not know 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 was repaired by Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of part 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 Siloah by the king’s garden, and to the stairs that go down from the city of David.

Psalm 102:15

So the heathen 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 those who are round about us.

Psalm 44:14

You make us a disgrace among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

Psalm 79:12

And return to 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 those who are round about us.

Jeremiah 24:9

And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places to which 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 the princes thereof.

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 the former decree be far removed.

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.