Nehemiah 2:17

New King James Version

Then I said to them, “You see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come and let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer be a reproach.”

Cross References

Ezra 9:9

For we were slaves. Yet our God did not forsake us in our bondage; but He extended mercy to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to revive us, to repair the house of our God, to rebuild its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 1:3

And they said to me, “The survivors who are left from the captivity in the province are there in great distress and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.”

Nehemiah 2:13

And I went out by night through the Valley Gate to the Serpent Well and the Refuse Gate, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem which were broken down and its gates which were burned with fire.

Nehemiah 2:16

And the officials did not know where I had gone or what I had done; I had not yet told the Jews, the priests, the nobles, the officials, or the others who did the work.

Nehemiah 3:15

Shallun the son of Col-Hozeh, leader of the district of Mizpah, repaired the Fountain Gate; he built it, covered it, hung its doors with its bolts and bars, and repaired the wall of the Pool of Shelah by the King’s Garden, as far as the stairs that go down from the City of David.

Psalm 102:15

So the nations 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 all 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 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 around us.

Jeremiah 24:9

I will deliver them to trouble into all the kingdoms of the earth, for their harm, to be a reproach and a byword, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.

Lamentations 2:2

The Lord has swallowed up and has not pitied All the dwelling places of Jacob. He has thrown down in His wrath 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 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 all around you, in the sight of all who pass by.

Micah 7:11

In the day when your walls are to be built, In that day the decree shall go far and wide.

1 Samuel 11:2

And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, “On this condition I will make a covenant with you, that I may put out all your right eyes, and bring reproach on all Israel.”