Nehemiah 7:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 58:12 : 12 And your sons will be building again the old waste places: you will make strong the bases of old generations: and you will be named, He who puts up the broken walls, and, He who makes ready the ways for use.
  • Hag 1:4-6 : 4 Is it a time for you to be living in roofed houses while this house is a waste? 5 For this cause the Lord of armies has said, Give thought to your ways. 6 Much has been planted, but little got in; you take food, but have not enough; you take drink, but are not full; you are clothed, but no one is warm; and he who gets payment for his work, gets it to put it into a bag full of holes.
  • Matt 6:33 : 33 But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.

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    14 There was a little town and the number of its men was small, and there came a great king against it and made an attack on it, building works of war round about it.

  • Neh 4:18-19
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    18 Every builder was working with his sword at his side. And by my side was a man for sounding the horn.

    19 And 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:

  • Neh 7:5-7
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    5 And my God put it into my heart to get together the rulers and the chiefs and the people so that they might be listed by families. And I came across a record of the names of those who came up at the first, and in it I saw these words:

    6 These are the people of the divisions of the kingdom, among those who had been made prisoners by Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and taken away by him, who went back to Jerusalem and Judah, every one to his town;

    7 Who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:

  • Neh 7:3
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    3 And 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.

  • Neh 1:3
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    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.

  • Ezra 4:4
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    4 Then the people of the land made the hands of the people of Judah feeble, troubling them with fear in their building;

  • Zech 2:4
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    4 Then I said, What have these come to do? And he said, These are the horns which sent Judah in flight, and kept him from lifting up his head: but these men have come to send fear on them and to put down the nations who are lifting up their horns against the land of Judah to send it in flight.

  • Neh 4:6-7
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    6 So we went on building the wall; and all the wall was joined together half-way up: for the people were working hard.

    7 But 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;

  • Ezra 3:1
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    1 And when the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the towns, the people came together like one man to Jerusalem.

  • Neh 7:1
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    1 Now when the building of the wall was complete and I had put up the doors, and the door-keepers and the music-makers and the Levites had been given their places,

  • Neh 2:17
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    17 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.

  • Neh 11:1-3
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    1 And the rulers of the people were living in Jerusalem: the rest of the people made selection, by the decision of chance, of one out of every ten to be living in Jerusalem, the holy town; the other nine to go to the other towns.

    2 And the people gave a blessing to all the men who were freely offering to take up their places in Jerusalem.

    3 Now these are the chiefs of the divisions of the country who were living in Jerusalem: but in the towns of Judah everyone was living on his heritage in the towns, that is, Israel, the priests, the Levites, the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants.

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

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    15 So 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.

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    12 We 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.

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    9 The Lord of armies has said to me secretly, Truly, numbers of great and fair houses will be waste, with no one living in them.

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    10 And 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.

  • Ezra 5:4
    70%

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

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    1 Now 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);

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    8 This 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.

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

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    4 With three lines of great stones and one line of new wood supports; and let the necessary money be given out of the king's store-house;

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    73 So the priests and the Levites and the door-keepers and the music-makers and some of the people and the Nethinim, and all Israel, were living in their towns.

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    13 So 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.

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    4 And whoever there may be of the rest of Israel, living in any place, let the men of that place give him help with offerings of silver and gold and goods and beasts, in addition to the offering freely given for the house of God in Jerusalem.

    5 Then the heads of families of Judah and Benjamin, with the priests and the Levites, got ready, even all those whose spirits were moved by God to go up and take in hand the building of the Lord's house in Jerusalem.

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    7 He said to Judah, Let us make these towns, building walls round them with towers and doors and locks. The land is still ours, because we have been true to the Lord our God; we have been true to him and he has given us rest on every side. So they went on building and all went well for them.

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    1 Now 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;

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    7 Let the work of this house of God go on; let the ruler of the Jews and their responsible men put up this house of God in its place.

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    16 And the people went out and got them and made themselves tents, every one on the roof of his house, and in the open spaces and in the open squares of the house of God, and in the wide place of the water-doorway, and the wide place of the doorway of Ephraim.

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    16 And 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.

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    21 Give an order now, that these men are to do nothing more, and that the building of the town is to be stopped, till I give an order.

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    3 O Jerusalem, you are like a town which is well joined together;

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    3 Who is there still among you who saw this house in its first glory? and how do you see it now? is it not in your eyes as nothing?