Nehemiah 2:17

Tree of Life Version

Then I said to them, “You see the bad situation we are in: Jerusalem is desolate and its gates have been burnt. Come! Let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem so that we will no longer be a disgrace.”

Cross References

Ezekiel 5:14

“Moreover I will make you a ruin and a mockery among the surrounding nations and in the sight of all who pass by.

Nehemiah 1:3

They said to me, “The remnant who have survived the captivity there in the province are in great distress and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down and its gates have been burned with fire.”

Psalm 79:4

We have become a taunt to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.

Lamentations 3:51

My eye torments my soul because of all the daughters of my city.

Lamentations 2:2

My Lord has mercilessly swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. He threw down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah in His fury. He knocked to the ground and humiliated the kingdom and its princes.

Jeremiah 24:9

I will even give them as a horror, as an evil thing, among all the kingdoms of the earth—as a disgrace and a proverb, a taunt and a curse—in all places where I will drive them.

Psalm 79:12

Pay back into the midst of our neighbors sevenfold their reproach— the reproach they hurled at You, my Lord.

Psalm 44:13

You are selling Your people cheaply— not even getting a great price for them.

1 Samuel 11:2

But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, “Only on this condition will I make a treaty with you—by gouging out the right eye of every one of you, thus I will bring disgrace on all Israel.”

Nehemiah 2:13

By night I went out by the Valley Gate toward Jackal Spring and the Dung Gate, inspecting the walls of Jerusalem, which had been broken down, and its gates, which had been destroyed by fire.

Nehemiah 2:16

The officials did not know where I had gone or what I was doing, but as yet I had not told the Jews, the kohanim, the nobles, the officials or the rest of the workers.

Nehemiah 3:15

Shallun son of Col-hozeh, the ruler of the district of Mizpah, repaired the Fountain Gate. He built it, covered it, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars. He also repaired the wall of the Pool of Shelah by the King’s Garden, as far as the stairs going down from the City of David.

Ezra 9:9

Though we are slaves, our God has not forsaken us in our bondage. He has extended lovingkindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, reviving us in order to restore the House of our God, to raise up its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

Psalm 44:14

You made us a taunt for our neighbors, a scorn and ridicule for those around us.

Psalm 102:15

for her stones are dear to Your servants, and they cherish her dust.

Micah 7:11

A day to rebuild your walls— a day the boundary will be far off,