Nehemiah 1:3

The Scriptures 2009

And they said to me, “The remnant who are left of the captivity in the province are there in great evil and reproach. And the wall of Yerushalayim is broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.”

Cross References

1 Kings 9:7

then I shall cut off Yisra’ĕl from the face of the soil which I have given them, and send away from My presence this house which I have set apart for My Name. And Yisra’ĕl shall be a proverb and a mockery among all the peoples.

2 Kings 25:10

And all the army of the Kasdim who were with the chief of the guard broke down the walls of Yerushalayim all around.

2 Chronicles 36:19

And they burned the House of Elohim, and broke down the wall of Yerushalayim, and burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all its valuable utensils.

Ezra 2:1

And these are the sons of the province who came back from the captivity of the exiles, whom Neḇuḵaḏnetstsar the sovereign of Baḇel had exiled to Baḇel, and who returned to Yerushalayim and Yehuḏah, each to his own city,

Ezra 5:8

Let it be known to the sovereign that we went into the province of Yehuḏah, to the House of the great Elah, which is being built with heavy stones, and timber is being laid in the walls. And this work goes on speedily and is blessed in their hands.

Nehemiah 11:3

And these are the heads of the province who dwelt in Yerushalayim, but in the cities of Yehuḏah everyone dwelt in his own possession in their cities – Yisra’ĕl, the priests, and the Lĕwites, and the Nethinim, and the sons of Shelomoh’s servants.

Nehemiah 2:13

And I went out by night through the Valley Gate to the Jackals’ Fountain and the Dung Gate, and examined the walls of Yerushalayim which were broken down and its gates which were burned with fire.

Nehemiah 2:17

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

Nehemiah 2:3

and said to the sovereign, “Let the sovereign live forever! Why should my face not be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ burial-sites, lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire?”

Nehemiah 7:6

These are the sons of the province who came back from the captivity of the exiles whom Neḇuḵaḏnetstsar the sovereign of Baḇel had exiled, and who returned to Yerushalayim and Yehuḏah, each to his city,

Esther 1:1

And it came to be in the days of Aḥashwĕrosh – he is the Aḥashwĕrosh who reigned from India to Kush, a hundred and twenty-seven provinces –

Psalm 79:4

We have become a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a mockery to those who are around us.

Proverbs 25:28

A man who has no control over his spirit Is like a broken-down city without a wall.

Isaiah 43:28

“So I have profaned the chief ones of the set-apart place, and I have delivered up Ya‛aqoḇ to the curse, and Yisra’ĕl to scorn.

Isaiah 5:5

“And now, please let Me inform you what I am doing to My vineyard: To take away its hedge and it shall be burned; to break down its wall and it shall be trampled down;

Jeremiah 24:9

And I shall make them a horror to all the reigns of the earth, for evil, to be a reproach and a byword, a mockery and a curse, in all the places to which I drive them.

Jeremiah 29:18

And I shall pursue them with the sword, with scarcity of food, and with pestilence. And I shall make them a horror among all the reigns of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them.

Jeremiah 39:8

And the Kasdim burned the house of the sovereign and the houses of the people with fire, and they broke down the walls of Yerushalayim.

Jeremiah 42:18

“For thus said יהוה of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, ‘As My displeasure and My wrath have been poured out on the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, so shall My wrath be poured out on you when you enter Mitsrayim. And you shall be an oath, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach, and you shall see this place no more.’

Jeremiah 5:10

“Go up on her walls and destroy, but do not make a complete end. Take away her branches, for they do not belong to יהוה.

Jeremiah 52:14

And all the army of the Kasdim who were with the chief of the guard broke down all the walls of Yerushalayim all around.

Lamentations 1:7

In the days of her affliction and wandering, Yerushalayim remembered all her precious matters She had in the days of old. When her people fell into the hand of the enemy, With no one to help her, The adversaries saw her, They mocked at her destruction.

Lamentations 2:9

Her gates have sunk into the ground. He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her sovereign and her rulers are among the nations. The Torah is no more, And her prophets have found no vision from יהוה.

Lamentations 3:61

You have heard their reproach, O יהוה, all their plans against me,

Lamentations 5:1

Remember, O יהוה, what has come upon us. Look, and see our reproach!

Leviticus 26:31

‘And I shall turn your cities into ruins and lay your set-apart places waste, and not smell your sweet fragrances.

Leviticus 26:33

‘And I shall scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you. And your land shall be desert and your cities ruins,