Nehemiah 2:17

Modern King James Version

And I said to them, You see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem is wasted, and the gates of it are burned with fire. Come and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, so that we may no more 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 some life, to set up the house of our God, and to repair its waste, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 1:3

And they said to me, The remnant left of the captivity there in the province is in great affliction and shame. And the wall of Jerusalem 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 looked at the walls of Jerusalem which were broken down, and its gates which were burned with fire.

Nehemiah 2:16

And the rulers did not know where I had gone, nor what I was doing. Nor had I told the Jews as yet, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that did the work.

Nehemiah 3:15

And the Fountain Gate was repaired by Shallum the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah. He built it and covered it, and set up 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 the nations shall fear the name of Jehovah, and all the kings of the earth Your glory.

Psalm 44:13

You make us a curse to our neighbors, a scorn and a mockery to those who 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 give to our neighbors their curse sevenfold into their bosom, the curse with which they have cursed You, O Lord.

Psalm 79:4

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

Jeremiah 24:9

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

Lamentations 2:2

The Lord swallowed up all the dwelling-places of Jacob and has not pitied. In His wrath He has thrown down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground. He has defiled the kingdom and its rulers.

Lamentations 3:51

My eye pains my soul because of all the daughters of my city.

Ezekiel 5:14

And I will make you a waste and a curse among the nations that are all around you, in the sight of all who pass by.

Micah 7:11

In the day that your walls are to be built, in that day the decree shall be far removed.

1 Samuel 11:2

And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, With this I will make a covenant with you, when all your right eyes are dug out and I will make it a reproach on all Israel.