Verse 6
Nehemiah 4:6
New King James Version
6
So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַֽ/יְהִי֙ כַּ/אֲשֶׁר בָּ֣אוּ הַ/יְּהוּדִ֔ים הַ/יֹּשְׁבִ֖ים אֶצְלָ֑/ם וַ/יֹּ֤אמְרוּ לָ֨/נוּ֙ עֶ֣שֶׂר פְּעָמִ֔ים מִ/כָּל הַ/מְּקֹמ֖וֹת אֲשֶׁר תָּשׁ֥וּבוּ עָלֵֽי/נוּ
English Translation
And it was when the Jews who were living near them came and said to us, "Ten times they will come against us from all the places where you turn to them."
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Chapter 4 Context
1
But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took grea...
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2
And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will...
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3
Now Tobiah the Ammonite
was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shal...
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4
Hear, O our God (Elohim); for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give...
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5
And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have p...
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6
So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had...
7
But it came to pass,
that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the A...
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8
And conspired all of them together to come
and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.
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9
Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God (Elohim), and set a watch against them day and night, b...
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10
And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and
there is much rubbish; so tha...
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11
And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come in the midst among them, an...
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12
And it came to pass, that when the Jews which dwelt by them came, they said unto us ten times, From...
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13
Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall,
and
on the higher places, I even set the peopl...
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14
And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the peopl...
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15
And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known unto us, and God (Elohim) had brought...
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16
And it came to pass from that time forth,
that the half of my servants wrought in the work, and the...
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17
They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded,
every one with on...
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18
For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and
so builded. And he that sounded th...
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19
And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, The work
is great and...
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20
In what place
therefore ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither unto us: our God (Elohim...
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21
So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the...
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22
Likewise at the same time said I unto the people, Let every one with his servant lodge within Jerusa...
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23
So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of...
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