Nehemiah 2:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then I said to them, You see what a bad condition we are in; how Jerusalem is a waste, and its doorways burned with fire: come, let us get to work, building up the wall of Jerusalem, so that we may no longer be put to shame.

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  • Neh 1:3 : 3 They said to me, The small band of Jews now living there in the land are in great trouble and shame: the wall of Jerusalem has been broken down, and its doorways burned with fire.
  • Ezek 5:14 : 14 And I will make you a waste and a name of shame among the nations round about you, in the eyes of everyone who goes by.
  • Lam 3:45-46 : 45 You have made us like waste and that for which there is no use, among the peoples. 46 The mouths of all our haters are open wide against us.
  • Ps 44:13 : 13 You have made us to be looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and shamed by those who are round about us.
  • Ps 79:4 : 4 We are looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and made sport of by those who are round us.
  • Jer 24:9 : 9 I will give them up to be a cause of fear and of trouble among all the kingdoms of the earth; to be a name of shame and common talk and a cutting word and a curse in all the places wherever I will send them wandering.
  • Lam 2:2 : 2 The Lord has given up to destruction all the living-places of Jacob without pity; pulling down in his wrath the strong places of the daughter of Judah, stretching out on the earth the wounded, even her king and her rulers.
  • Lam 2:8-9 : 8 It is the Lord's purpose to make waste the wall of the daughter of Zion; his line has been stretched out, he has not kept back his hand from destruction: he has sent sorrow on tower and wall, they have become feeble together. 9 Her doors have gone down into the earth; he has sent destruction on her locks: her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; even her prophets have had no vision from the Lord.
  • 1 Sam 11:2 : 2 And Nahash the Ammonite said to them, I will make an agreement with you on this condition, that all your right eyes are put out; so that I may make it a cause of shame to all Israel.
  • Ezra 5:1-2 : 1 Now the prophets Haggai and Zechariah, the son of Iddo, were preaching to the Jews in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel. 2 Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, got up and made a start at building the house of God at Jerusalem: and the prophets of God were with them, helping them.
  • Ezra 10:2-4 : 2 And Shecaniah, the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answering, said to Ezra, We have done evil against our God, and have taken as our wives strange women of the peoples of the land: but still there is hope for Israel in this question. 3 Let us now make an agreement with our God to put away all the wives and all their children, if it seems right to my lord and to those who go in fear of the words of our God; and let it be done in keeping with the law. 4 Up, now! for this is your business, and we are with you; take heart and do it.
  • Ps 79:12 : 12 And give punishment seven times over into the breast of our neighbours for the bitter words which they have said against you, O Lord.
  • Ps 89:50-51 : 50 Keep in mind, O Lord, the shame of your servants, and how the bitter words of all the people have come into my heart; 51 The bitter words of your haters, O Lord, shaming the footsteps of your king.
  • Isa 35:3-4 : 3 Make strong the feeble hands, give support to the shaking knees. 4 Say to those who are full of fear, Be strong and take heart: see, your God will give punishment; the reward of God will come; he himself will come to be your saviour.
  • Lam 3:51 : 51 The Lord is unkind to my soul, more than all the daughters of my town.
  • Ezek 22:4-5 : 4 You are responsible for the blood drained out by you, and you are unclean through the images which you have made; and you have made your day come near, and the time of your judging has come; for this cause I have made you a name of shame to the nations and a cause of laughing to all countries. 5 Those who are near and those who are far from you will make sport of you; your name is unclean, you are full of sounds of fear.

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  • Neh 1:2-4
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    85%

    2That Hanani, one of my brothers, came with certain men from Judah; and in answer to my request for news of the Jews who had been prisoners and had got away, and of Jerusalem,

    3They said to me, The small band of Jews now living there in the land are in great trouble and shame: the wall of Jerusalem has been broken down, and its doorways burned with fire.

    4Then, after hearing these words, for some days I gave myself up to weeping and sorrow, seated on the earth; and taking no food I made prayer to the God of heaven,

  • Neh 2:18-20
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    18Then I gave them an account of how the hand of my God was on me, helping me; and of the king's words which he had said to me. And they said, Let us get to work on the building. So they made their hands strong for the good work.

    19But Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, hearing of it, made sport of us, laughing at us and saying, What are you doing? will you go against the king?

    20Then answering them I said, The God of heaven, he will be our help; so we his servants will go on with our building: but you have no part or right or any name in Jerusalem.

  • Neh 4:5-13
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    5Let not their wrongdoing be covered or their sin washed away from before you: for they have made you angry before the builders.

    6So we went on building the wall; and all the wall was joined together half-way up: for the people were working hard.

    7But when it came to the ears of Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabians and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites, that the building of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and the broken places were being made good, they were full of wrath;

    8And they made designs, all of them together, to come and make an attack on Jerusalem, causing trouble there.

    9But we made our prayer to God, and had men on watch against them day and night because of them.

    10And Judah said, The strength of the workmen is giving way, and there is much waste material; it is impossible for us to put up the wall.

    11And those who were against us said, Without their knowledge and without their seeing us, we will come among them and put them to death, causing the work to come to a stop.

    12And it came about that when the Jews who were living near them came, they said to us ten times, From all directions they are coming against us.

    13So in the lowest part of the space at the back of the walls, in the open places, I put the people by families, with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

  • Neh 4:17-19
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    80%

    17Those who were building the wall and those who were moving material did their part, everyone working with one hand, with his spear in the other;

    18Every builder was working with his sword at his side. And by my side was a man for sounding the horn.

    19And I said to the great ones and the chiefs and the rest of the people, The work is great and widely spaced and we are far away from one another on the wall:

  • Ezra 4:12-13
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    12We give news to the king that the Jews who came from you have come to us at Jerusalem; they are building up again that uncontrolled and evil town; the walls are complete and they are joining up the bases.

    13The king may be certain that when the building of this town and its walls is complete, they will give no tax or payment in goods or forced payments, and in the end it will be a cause of loss to the kings.

  • Ezra 5:8-9
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    8This is to give the king word that we went into the land of Judah, to the house of the great God, which is made of great stones, and has its walls supported with wood, and the work is going on with industry, and they are doing it well.

    9Then we said to the men responsible, who gave you authority for the building of this house and these walls?

  • Neh 4:1-3
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    1Now, Sanballat, hearing that we were building the wall, was very angry, and in his wrath made sport of the Jews.

    2And in the hearing of his countrymen and the army of Samaria he said, What are these feeble Jews doing? will they make themselves strong? will they make offerings? will they get the work done in a day? will they make the stones which have been burned come again out of the dust?

    3Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Such is their building that if a fox goes up it, their stone wall will be broken down.

  • Neh 2:15-16
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    15Then in the night, I went up by the stream, viewing the wall; then turning back, I went in by the door in the valley, and so came back.

    16And the chiefs had no knowledge of where I had been or what I was doing; and I had not then said anything to the Jews or to the priests or the great ones or the chiefs or the rest of those who were doing the work.

  • Neh 4:15
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    15And when it came to the ears of those who were against us, that we had knowledge of their designs and that God had made their purpose come to nothing, we all went back to the wall, everyone to his work

  • Neh 2:13
    77%

    13And I went out by night, through the doorway of the valley, and past the dragon's water-spring as far as the place where waste material was put, viewing the walls of Jerusalem which were broken down, and the doorways which had been burned with fire.

  • Neh 6:1-2
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    1Now when word was given to Sanballat and Tobiah and to Geshem the Arabian and to the rest of our haters, that I had done the building of the wall and that there were no more broken places in it (though even then I had not put up the doors in the doorways);

    2Sanballat and Geshem sent to me saying, Come, let us have a meeting in one of the little towns in the lowland of Ono. But their purpose was to do me evil.

  • Ezra 9:9
    76%

    9For we are servants; but our God has not been turned away from us in our prison, but has had mercy on us before the eyes of the kings of Persia, to give us new strength to put up again the house of our God and to make fair its waste places, and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.

  • Neh 2:3
    76%

    3And said to the king, May the king be living for ever: is it not natural for my face to be sad, when the town, the place where the bodies of my fathers are at rest, has been made waste and its doorways burned with fire?

  • Neh 6:16
    76%

    16And when our haters had news of this, all the nations round about us were full of fear and were greatly shamed, for they saw that this work had been done by our God.

  • Ezra 5:3-4
    2 verses
    76%

    3At the same time, Tattenai, ruler of the land across the river, and Shethar-bozenai, and their men, came to them and said, Who gave you orders to go on building this house and this wall?

    4Then they said these words to them: What are the names of the men who are at work on this building?

  • Neh 5:16
    75%

    16And I kept on with the work of this wall, and we got no land for ourselves: and all my servants were helping with the work.

  • Neh 5:9
    75%

    9And I said, What you are doing is not good: is it not the more necessary for you to go in the fear of our God, because of the shame which the nations may put on us?

  • Neh 13:21
    74%

    21Then I gave witness against them and said, Why are you waiting all night by the wall? if you do so again I will have you taken prisoners. From that time they did not come again on the Sabbath.

  • Ezra 4:1
    74%

    1Now news came to the haters of Judah and Benjamin that the people who had come back were building a Temple to the Lord, the God of Israel;

  • Isa 22:10
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    10And you had the houses of Jerusalem numbered, pulling down the houses to make the wall stronger.

  • Neh 7:3-4
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    3And I said to them, Do not let the doors of Jerusalem be open till the sun is high; and while the watchmen are in their places, let the doors be shut and locked: and let the people of Jerusalem be put on watch, every one in his watch, opposite his house.

    4Now the town was wide and great: but the people in it were only a small number, and the houses had not been put up.

  • Ezra 4:15-16
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    15So that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers: and you will see in the book of the records that this town has been uncontrolled, and a cause of trouble to kings and countries, and that there were outbursts against authority there in the past: for which reason the town was made waste.

    16We give you word, that if the building of this town and its walls is made complete, there will be an end of your power in the country across the river.

  • Neh 6:6
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    6And in it these words were recorded: It is said among the nations, and Geshem says so, that you and the Jews are hoping to make yourselves free from the king's authority; and that this is why you are building the wall: and they say that it is your purpose to be their king;

  • Neh 2:10
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    10And Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, hearing of it, were greatly troubled because a man had come to the help of the children of Israel.

  • Ezra 8:22
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    22For I would not, for shame, make request to the king for a band of armed men and horsemen to give us help against those who might make attacks on us on the way: for we had said to the king, The hand of our God is on his servants for good, but his power and his wrath are against all those who are turned away from him.

  • Neh 13:11
    72%

    11Then I made protests to the chiefs, and said, Why has the house of God been given up? And I got them together and put them in their places.

  • Ezra 5:11
    72%

    11And they made answer to us, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are building the house which was put up in times long past and was designed and made complete by a great king of Israel.