Nehemiah 2:17

New American Bible - revised edition

Afterward I said to them: “You see the trouble we are in: how Jerusalem lies in ruins and its gates have been gutted by fire. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, so that we may no longer be a reproach!”

Cross References

Ezra 9:9

For slaves we are, but in our slavery our God has not abandoned us; rather, he has turned the good will of the kings of Persia toward us. Thus he has given us new life to raise again the house of our God and restore its ruins, and has granted us a protective wall in Judah and Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 1:3

They answered me: “The survivors of the captivity there in the province are in great distress and under reproach. The wall of Jerusalem has been breached, its gates gutted by fire.”

Nehemiah 2:13

I rode out at night by the Valley Gate, passed by the Dragon Spring, and came to the Dung Gate, observing how the walls of Jerusalem were breached and its gates consumed by fire.

Nehemiah 2:16

The magistrates knew nothing of where I had gone or what I was doing, for as yet I had disclosed nothing to the Jews, neither to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the magistrates, nor to the others who were to do the work. Decision to Rebuild the City Wall.

Nehemiah 3:15

The Fountain Gate was repaired by Shallum, son of Colhozeh, administrator of the district of Mizpah; he rebuilt it, roofed it, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars. He also repaired the wall of the Aqueduct Pool near the King’s Garden as far as the steps that lead down from the City of David.

Psalm 102:15

Its stones are dear to your servants; its dust moves them to pity.

Psalm 44:13

You sell your people for nothing; you make no profit from their sale.

Psalm 44:14

You make us the reproach of our neighbors, the mockery and scorn of those around us.

Psalm 79:12

Turn back sevenfold into the bosom of our neighbors the insult with which they insulted you, Lord.

Psalm 79:4

We have become the reproach of our neighbors, the scorn and derision of those around us.

Jeremiah 24:9

I will make them an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, a reproach and a byword, a taunt and a curse, in all the places to which I will drive them.

Lamentations 2:2

The Lord has devoured without pity all of Jacob’s dwellings; In his fury he has razed daughter Judah’s defenses, Has brought to the ground in dishonor a kingdom and its princes.

Lamentations 3:51

I am tormented by the sight of all the daughters of my city.

Ezekiel 5:14

I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations around you, in the sight of every passerby.

Micah 7:11

It is the day for building your walls; on that day your boundaries shall be enlarged.

1 Samuel 11:2

But Nahash the Ammonite replied, “This is my condition for making a treaty with you: I will gouge out the right eye of every man, and thus bring shame on all Israel.”