Nehemiah 2:17

New English Translation

Then I said to them, “You see the problem that we have: Jerusalem is desolate and its gates are burned. Come on! Let’s rebuild the wall of Jerusalem so that this reproach will not continue.”

Cross References

Ezra 9:9

Although we are slaves, our God has not abandoned us in our servitude. He has extended kindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, in that he has revived us to restore the temple of our God and to raise up its ruins and to give us a protective wall in Judah and Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 1:3

They said to me, “The remnant that remains from the exile there in the province are experiencing considerable adversity and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem lies breached, and its gates have been burned down!”

Nehemiah 2:13

I proceeded through the Valley Gate by night, in the direction of the Well of the Dragons and the Dung Gate, inspecting the walls of Jerusalem that had been breached and its gates that had been destroyed by fire.

Nehemiah 2:16

The officials did not know where I had gone or what I had been doing, for up to this point I had not told any of the Jews or the priests or the nobles or the officials or the rest of the workers.

Nehemiah 3:15

Shallun son of Col-Hozeh, head of the district of Mizpah, worked on the Fountain Gate. He rebuilt it, put on its roof, and positioned its doors, its bolts, and its bars. In addition, he rebuilt the wall of the Pool of Siloam, by the royal garden, as far as the steps that go down from the City of David.

Psalm 102:15

The nations will respect the reputation of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth will respect his splendor,

Psalm 44:13

You made us an object of disdain to our neighbors; those who live on our borders taunt and insult us.

Psalm 44:14

You made us an object of ridicule among the nations; foreigners treat us with contempt.

Psalm 79:12

Pay back our neighbors in full! May they be insulted the same way they insulted you, O Lord!

Psalm 79:4

We have become an object of disdain to our neighbors; those who live on our borders taunt and insult us.

Jeremiah 24:9

I will bring such disaster on them that all the kingdoms of the earth will be horrified. I will make them an object of reproach, a proverbial example of disaster. I will make them an object of ridicule, an example to be used in curses. That is how they will be remembered wherever I banish them.

Lamentations 2:2

The Lord destroyed mercilessly all the homes of Jacob’s descendants. In his anger he tore down the fortified cities of Daughter Judah. He knocked to the ground and humiliated the kingdom and its rulers. ג (Gimel)

Lamentations 3:51

What my eyes see grieves me – all the suffering of the daughters in my city. צ (Tsade)

Ezekiel 5:14

“I will make you desolate and an object of scorn among the nations around you, in the sight of everyone who passes by.

Micah 7:11

It will be a day for rebuilding your walls; in that day your boundary will be extended.

1 Samuel 11:2

But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, “The only way I will make a treaty with you is if you let me gouge out the right eye of every one of you and in so doing humiliate all Israel!”