Nehemiah 1:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

They replied, “The remnant there in the province who escaped captivity are in great trouble and shame; the wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been destroyed by fire.”

Cross References

1 Kings 9:7

then I will cut Israel off from the land that I have given them, and the house that I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight, and Israel will become a proverb and a taunt among all peoples.

2 Kings 25:10

All the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard broke down the walls around Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 36:19

They burned the house of God, broke down the wall of Jerusalem, burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all its precious vessels.

Ezra 2:1

Now these are the people of the province who came from those captive exiles whom King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had carried captive to Babylon; they returned to Jerusalem and Judah, all to their own towns.

Ezra 5:8

May it be known to the king that we went to the province of Judah, to the house of the great God. It is being built of hewn stone, and timber is laid in the walls; this work is being done diligently and prospers in their hands.

Nehemiah 11:3

These are the leaders of the province who lived in Jerusalem, but in the towns of Judah all lived on their property in their towns: Israel, the priests, the Levites, the temple servants, and the descendants of Solomon’s servants.

Nehemiah 2:13

I went out by night by the Valley Gate past the Dragon’s Spring and to the Dung Gate, and I inspected the walls of Jerusalem that had been broken down and its gates that had been destroyed by fire.

Nehemiah 2:17

Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins with its gates burned. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, so that we may no longer suffer disgrace.”

Nehemiah 2:3

I said to the king, “May the king live forever! Why should my face not be sad, when the city, the place of my ancestors’ graves, lies waste and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”

Nehemiah 7:6

These are the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of those exiles whom King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had carried into exile; they returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his town.

Esther 1:1

This happened in the days of Ahasuerus, the same Ahasuerus who ruled over one hundred twenty-seven provinces from India to Cush.

Psalm 79:4

We have become a taunt to our neighbors, mocked and derided by those around us.

Proverbs 25:28

Like a city breached, without walls, is one who lacks self-control.

Isaiah 43:28

Therefore I profaned the princes of the sanctuary; I delivered Jacob to utter destruction and Israel to reviling.

Isaiah 5:5

And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down.

Jeremiah 24:9

I will make them a horror, an evil thing, to all the kingdoms of the earth—a disgrace, a byword, a taunt, and a curse in all the places where I shall drive them.

Jeremiah 29:18

I will pursue them with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence and will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an object of cursing and horror and hissing and a derision among all the nations where I have driven them,

Jeremiah 39:8

The Chaldeans burned with fire the king’s house and the houses of the people and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 42:18

“For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Just as my anger and my wrath were poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so my wrath will be poured out on you when you go to Egypt. You shall become an object of execration and horror, of cursing and ridicule. You shall see this place no more.

Jeremiah 5:10

Go up through her vine rows and destroy, but do not make a full end; strip away her branches, for they are not the Lord’s.

Jeremiah 52:14

All the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.

Lamentations 1:7

Jerusalem remembers all the precious things that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into the hand of the enemy and there was no one to help her, the enemy looked on; they mocked over her downfall.

Lamentations 2:9

Her gates have sunk into the ground; he has ruined and broken her bars; her king and princes are among the nations; guidance is no more, and her prophets obtain no vision from the Lord.

Lamentations 3:61

You have heard their taunts, O Lord, all their plots against me.

Lamentations 5:1

Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us; look, and see our disgrace!

Leviticus 26:31

I will lay your cities waste, will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your pleasing odors.

Leviticus 26:33

And you I will scatter among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword against you; your land shall be a desolation and your cities a waste.