But when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and was very indignant, and mocked the Jews. Neh 2:10Heb 11:36Act 5:17Neh 2:19Psa 35:15-16Mat 27:29Ezr 4:1-5Psa 44:13-14 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?” 1Co 1:27Ezr 4:9-101Sa 17:43-44Ezk 37:3-13Neh 4:10Zec 12:81Sa 14:11-12Hab 3:2
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.” Neh 2:191Ki 20:101Ki 20:182Ki 18:23Neh 2:10Lam 5:18Neh 6:1
“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. Psa 79:12Psa 123:3-4Pro 3:34Hos 12:141Sa 17:26 Don’t cover their iniquity. Don’t let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders.” Jer 18:23Psa 109:14Psa 69:27-282Ti 4:14Isa 44:22Isa 43:25Psa 51:1Psa 51:9
So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half its height, for the people had a mind to work. Php 2:131Ch 29:3Heb 13:21Neh 6:151Ch 29:141Ch 29:17-18Psa 110:32Ch 29:36
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; Neh 2:10Neh 4:1Act 4:17-18Act 5:33Amo 1:13Jer 25:20Rev 12:12-13Rev 12:17 and they all conspired together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion among us. Psa 83:3-11Act 23:12-13Isa 8:9-10Jer 20:10Psa 2:1-3 But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night because of them. 1Pe 5:8Act 4:24-30Psa 50:15Luk 21:36Luk 6:11-12Mat 26:412Ki 19:14-19Gen 32:28
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.” 2Ch 2:18Ezk 29:18Hag 1:2Num 13:31Num 32:9Psa 11:1-2 Our adversaries said, “They will not know or see, until we come in among them and kill them, and cause the work to cease.” 1Th 5:22Sa 17:2Act 23:12Act 23:21Isa 47:11Jdg 20:29-48Psa 56:6
When the Jews who lived by them came, they said to us ten times from all places, “Wherever you turn, they will attack us.” Gen 31:41Gen 31:7Job 19:3Num 14:22
Therefore I set guards in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in the open places. I set the people by family groups with their swords, their spears, and their bows. Eph 6:11-20Neh 4:17-181Co 14:202Ch 32:2-8Gen 32:13-20Mat 10:16Psa 112:5Sng 3:7-8 I looked, and rose up, and said to the nobles, to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, “Don’t be afraid of them! Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your houses.” 2Sa 10:12Num 14:9Isa 41:10-14Heb 13:6Psa 66:3Mat 10:28Psa 20:7Psa 65:5
When our enemies heard that it was known to us, and God had brought their counsel to nothing, all of us returned to the wall, everyone to his work. 2Sa 17:14Rom 12:11Isa 44:25Job 5:12-13Psa 33:10-112Sa 15:31Isa 8:10Lam 3:37-38 From that time forth, half of my servants did the work, and half of them held the spears, the shields, the bows, and the coats of mail; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah. Neh 4:23Neh 5:15-16Psa 101:6 Those who built the wall, and those who bore burdens loaded themselves; everyone with one of his hands did the work, and with the other held his weapon. 2Co 6:72Ti 2:32Ti 4:71Co 16:131Co 16:9Eph 6:11-20Php 1:281Co 9:12 Among the builders, everyone wore his sword at his side, and so built. He who sounded the trumpet was by me. Num 10:92Ch 13:12-17 I said to the nobles, and to the rulers and to the rest of the people, “The work is great and widely spread out, and we are separated on the wall, far from one another. Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally there to us. Our God will fight for us.” Exo 14:14Deu 1:30Deu 20:4Deu 3:22Jos 23:10Zec 14:3Exo 14:25
So we did the work. Half of the people held the spears from the rising of the morning until the stars appeared. Gal 6:9Col 1:291Co 15:101Co 15:58 Likewise at the same time I said to the people, “Let everyone with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and may labor in the day.” Neh 11:1-2 So neither I, nor my brothers, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard who followed me took off our clothes. Everyone took his weapon to the water. 1Co 15:10Jdg 5:11Jdg 9:48Neh 5:16Neh 7:2