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Nehemiah 4:8 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" and they all conspired together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion among us. "

Nehemiah 4:8

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6 So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.

7 But when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, and that the breaches began to be filled, they were very angry;

8 and they all conspired together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion among us.

9 But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night because of them.

10 Judah said, “The strength of the bearers of burdens is fading and there is much rubble, so that we are not able to build the wall.”

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Nehemiah 4:1

"But when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and was very indignant, and mocked the Jews."

Nehemiah 4:2

"He spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, since they are burned?”"

Nehemiah 4:3

"Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, “What they are building, if a fox climbed up it, he would break down their stone wall.”"

Nehemiah 4:4

"“Hear, our God, for we are despised. Turn back their reproach on their own head. Give them up for a plunder in a land of captivity."

Nehemiah 4:5

"Don’t cover their iniquity. Don’t let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders.”"

Nehemiah 4:6

"So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half its height, for the people had a mind to work."

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