Nehemiah 2:17

The Scriptures 2009

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.”

Cross References

Ezra 9:9

“For we were slaves, but in our bondage our Elohim did not forsake us, and extended loving-commitment to us in the presence of the sovereigns of Persia, to revive us, to raise up the House of our Elohim, to restore its ruins, and to give us a wall in Yehuḏah and Yerushalayim.

Nehemiah 1:3

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.”

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 2:16

And the deputy rulers did not know where I had gone nor what I had done. Nor had I yet informed the Yehuḏim, or the priests, or the nobles, or the deputy rulers, or the others who did the work.

Nehemiah 3:15

And the Fountain Gate was strengthened by Shallun son of Kol-Ḥozeh, ruler of the district of Mitspah. He built it and covered it, and set up its doors, its bolts and bars – also the wall of the Pool of Shelaḥ by the Sovereign’s Garden, as far as the stairs going down from the City of Dawiḏ.

Psalm 102:15

And the nations shall fear the Name of יהוה, And all the sovereigns of the earth Your esteem,

Psalm 44:13

You make us a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a mockery to those round about us.

Psalm 44:14

You make us a proverb among the nations, A shaking of the head among the peoples.

Psalm 79:12

And repay to our neighbours sevenfold Their reproach, into their bosom, With which they have reproached You, O יהוה.

Psalm 79:4

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

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.

Lamentations 2:2

יהוה has swallowed up, without compassion, All the pastures of Ya‛aqoḇ. In His wrath He has thrown down The strongholds of the daughter of Yehuḏah. He has brought them down to the ground. He has profaned the reign and its rulers.

Lamentations 3:51

My eye pains my being Because of all the daughters of my city.

Ezekiel 5:14

And I shall make you a waste and a reproach among the nations that are all around you, before the eyes of all who pass by.

Micah 7:11

The day for building your walls! Let the law go far and wide in that day –

1 Samuel 11:2

Then Naḥash the Ammonite answered them, “For this I make a covenant with you, that I dig out all your right eyes, and I shall bring reproach on all Yisra’ĕl.”