This is how it’s been for me twenty years in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flocks—and you changed my salary ten times!
Nehemiah 4:12 - Tree of Life Version So each of the builders had his sword strapped to his side while they were building, and the shofar blower was beside me. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And it came to pass, that when the Jews which dwelt by them came, they said unto us ten times, From all places whence ye shall return unto us they will be upon you. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And when the Jews who lived near them came, they said to us ten times, You must return [to guard our little villages]; from all places where they dwell they will be upon us. American Standard Version (1901) And it came to pass that, when the Jews that dwelt by them came, they said unto us ten times from all places, Ye must return unto us. Common English Bible Now the Jews who were living near them came and said to us again and again, “You must return to us!” Catholic Public Domain Version Now it happened that, on ten occasions, some Jews arrived who were living near them, from all the places from which they came to us, and they told us this. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And it came to pass, that when the Jews that dwelt by them came and told us ten times, out of all the places from whence they came to us: |
This is how it’s been for me twenty years in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flocks—and you changed my salary ten times!
Yet your father has fooled around with me and has changed my salary ten times—but God hasn’t allowed him to harm me.
Those building the wall and those bearing heavy burdens kept one hand on the work and the other holding a weapon.
Then I said to the nobles, the rulers and the rest of the people, “The work is extensive and spread out, and we are widely separated from one another on the wall.
In every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king questioned them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers throughout his realm.
none of the people who saw My glory and My miraculous signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet tested Me these ten times and did not obey My Voice—