Nehemiah 2:17

Modern English Version

Finally, I said to them, “You see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem is devastated and its gates are burned with fire. Come, and let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem so that we will no more be a reproach.”

Cross References

Ezra 9:9

For though we were slaves, our God has not forsaken us in our bondage but has extended mercy to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, granting us a reviving for the rebuilding of the house of our God, for the repairing of its ruins, and for giving us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 1:3

They said to me, “The remnant that returned from captivity is there in the province enduring great affliction and reproach. Also, the wall of Jerusalem remains broken down, and its gates have been burned with fire.”

Nehemiah 2:13

So I went out by night by the Valley Gate toward the Dragon’s Well and then to the Refuse Gate, because I was inspecting the broken-down walls of Jerusalem and its burned gates.

Nehemiah 2:16

The officials did not know where I went or what I did, since I had not yet told it to the Jews, the priests, the nobles, the officials, or to any of the others who would do the work.

Nehemiah 3:15

And Shallun the son of Col-hozeh, commander of the Mizpah district, made repairs to the Fountain Gate. He rebuilt it, covered it, erected its doors, and installed the locks and bars for it. He also repaired the wall of the pool of Shelah by the king’s garden as far as the steps going down from the City of David.

Psalm 102:15

So the nations will 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 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 render to our neighbors sevenfold into their lap the 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 around us.

Jeremiah 24:9

And I will make them a horror and an evil to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a reproach and a byword, a taunt and a curse, in all places wherever I shall drive them.

Lamentations 2:2

The Lord has swallowed up without mercy all the habitations of Jacob; in His wrath He has thrown down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground; He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.

Lamentations 3:51

My eyes bring suffering to my soul at the fate of all the daughters of my city.

Ezekiel 5:14

“Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are all around you, in the sight of all who pass by.

Micah 7:11

A day for building your walls, in that day the boundary will be extended.

1 Samuel 11:2

Nahash the Ammonite answered them, “On this condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may pluck out all your right eyes. So I will inflict it as a reproach upon all Israel.”