Nehemiah 4:15

World English Bible (2000)

It happened, when our enemies heard that it was known to us, and God had brought their counsel to nothing, that we returned all of us to the wall, everyone to his work.

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  • 2 Sam 17:14 : 14 Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel." For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.
  • Rom 12:11 : 11 not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
  • Isa 44:25 : 25 who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;
  • Job 5:12-13 : 12 He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can't perform their enterprise. 13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
  • Ps 33:10-11 : 10 Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect. 11 The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
  • Prov 21:30 : 30 There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.
  • Isa 8:10 : 10 Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand: for God is with us."
  • Lam 3:37-38 : 37 Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn't command it? 38 Doesn't evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
  • Mark 13:34 : 34 "It is like a man, traveling to another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch.
  • 1 Cor 3:19-20 : 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He has taken the wise in their craftiness." 20 And again, "The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless."
  • 1 Thess 4:11 : 11 and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;
  • 2 Sam 15:31 : 31 Someone told David, saying, "Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom." David said, "Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness."

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Neh 6:14-16
    3 verses
    84%

    14"Remember, my God, Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and also the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear."

    15So the wall was finished in the twenty-fifth [day] of [the month] Elul, in fifty-two days.

    16It happened, when all our enemies heard [of it], that all the nations that were about us feared, and were much cast down in their own eyes; for they perceived that this work was worked of our God.

  • Neh 4:6-14
    9 verses
    82%

    6So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half [the height] of it: for the people had a mind to work.

    7But it happened that 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 stopped, then they were very angry;

    8and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.

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

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

    11Our adversaries said, "They shall not know, neither see, until we come into the midst of them, and kill them, and cause the work to cease."

    12It happened that when the Jews who lived by them came, they said to us ten times from all places, "Wherever you turn, they will attack us."

    13Therefore set I in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in the open places, I set [there] the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

    14I looked, and rose up, and said to the nobles, and 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, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses."

  • Neh 4:16-22
    7 verses
    81%

    16It happened from that time forth, that half of my servants worked in the work, and half of them held the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the coats of mail; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah.

    17They all built the wall and those who bore burdens loaded themselves; everyone with one of his hands worked in the work, and with the other held his weapon;

    18and the builders, everyone wore his sword at his side, and so built. He who sounded the trumpet was by me.

    19I said to the nobles, and to the rulers and to the rest of the people, "The work is great and large, and we are separated on the wall, one far from another.

    20Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally there to us. Our God will fight for us."

    21So we worked in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning until the stars appeared.

    22Likewise at the same time said I 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 4:1-4
    4 verses
    78%

    1But it happened that when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.

    2He 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?"

    3Now 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."

    4"Hear, our God; for we are despised; and turn back their reproach on their own head, give them up for a spoil in a land of captivity;

  • Neh 6:1-2
    2 verses
    78%

    1Now it happened, when it was reported to Sanballat and Tobiah, and to Geshem the Arabian, and to the rest of our enemies, that I had built the wall, and that there was no breach left therein; (though even to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates;)

    2that Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, "Come, let us meet together in [one of] the villages in the plain of Ono." But they intended to harm me.

  • Neh 2:15-20
    6 verses
    77%

    15Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.

    16The rulers didn't know where I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest who did the work.

    17Then I said to them, "You see the evil case that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come, let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we won't be disgraced."

    18I told them of the hand of my God which was good on me, as also of the king's words that he had spoken to me. They said, "Let's rise up and build." So they strengthened their hands for the good work.

    19But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us, and despised us, and said, "What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?"

    20Then answered I them, and said to them, "The God of heaven will prosper us. Therefore we, his servants, will arise and build; but you have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem."

  • Ezra 4:1
    76%

    1Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity were building a temple to Yahweh, the God of Israel;

  • Neh 5:16
    76%

    16Yes, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we any land: and all my servants were gathered there to the work.

  • Ezra 5:3-4
    2 verses
    75%

    3At the same time came to them Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, and Shetharbozenai, and their companions, and said thus to them, "Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?"

    4Then we told them in this way, what the names of the men were who were making this building.

  • Ezra 5:8-9
    2 verses
    75%

    8Be it known to the king, that we went into the province of Judah, to the house of the great God, which is built with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls; and this work goes on with diligence and prospers in their hands.

    9Then we asked those elders, and said to them thus, "Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?"

  • Ezra 4:23
    74%

    23Then when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went in haste to Jerusalem to the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power.

  • Ezra 4:4-5
    2 verses
    74%

    4Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,

    5and hired counselors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.

  • Ezra 4:12-13
    2 verses
    74%

    12Be it known to the king, that the Jews who came up from you are come to us to Jerusalem; they are building the rebellious and the bad city, and have finished the walls, and repaired the foundations.

    13Be it known now to the king that if this city is built, and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, and in the end it will be hurtful to the kings.

  • Ezra 9:9
    74%

    9For we are bondservants; yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended loving kindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

  • Neh 6:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9For they all would have made us afraid, saying, "Their hands will be weakened from the work, that it not be done. But now, [God], strengthen my hands."

    10I went to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, who was shut in at his home; and he said, "Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple; for they will come to kill you; yes, in the night will they come to kill you."

  • Neh 1:3
    72%

    3They said to me, "The remnant who are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and its gates are burned with fire."

  • Neh 2:10
    72%

    10When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, because a man had come to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.

  • Ezra 8:31
    72%

    31Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth [day] of the first month, to go to Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the bandit by the way.

  • Neh 12:38
    72%

    38The other company of those who gave thanks went to meet them, and I after them, with the half of the people, on the wall, above the tower of the furnaces, even to the broad wall,

  • Ezra 8:22
    72%

    22For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, "The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him."