Nehemiah 4:23

World English Bible (2000)

So neither I, nor my brothers, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard who followed me, none of us took off our clothes. Everyone took his weapon to the water.

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Referenced Verses

  • Judg 5:11 : 11 Far from the noise of archers, in the places of drawing water, there they will rehearse the righteous acts of Yahweh, [Even] the righteous acts of his rule in Israel. "Then the people of Yahweh went down to the gates.
  • Judg 9:48 : 48 Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the people who were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it up, and laid it on his shoulder: and he said to the people who were with him, "What you have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done!"
  • Neh 5:16 : 16 Yes, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we any land: and all my servants were gathered there to the work.
  • Neh 7:2 : 2 that I put my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the governor of the castle, in charge of Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.
  • 1 Cor 15:10 : 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was bestowed on me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

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  • Neh 4:21-22
    2 verses
    83%

    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."

  • Ezek 44:17-19
    3 verses
    71%

    17It shall be that, when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall come on them, while they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within.

    18They shall have linen tires on their heads, and shall have linen breeches on their waists; they shall not clothe themselves with [anything that causes] sweat.

    19When they go forth into the outer court, even into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments in which they minister, and lay them in the holy rooms; and they shall put on other garments, that they not sanctify the people with their garments.

  • Song 5:3
    70%

    3I have taken off my robe. Indeed, must I put it on? I have washed my feet. Indeed, must I soil them?

  • Neh 5:16
    70%

    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.

  • Lev 16:4
    69%

    4He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches on his body, and shall put on the linen sash, and he shall be clothed with the linen turban. They are the holy garments. He shall bathe his body in water, and put them on.

  • Lev 15:16-17
    2 verses
    68%

    16"'If any man has an emission of semen, then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the evening.

    17Every garment, and every skin, whereon the semen is, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening.

  • Neh 7:3
    68%

    3I said to them, "Don't let the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot; and while they stand guard, let them shut the doors, and you bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, everyone in his watch, with everyone near his house."

  • Jer 36:24
    67%

    24They were not afraid, nor tore their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants who heard all these words.

  • Neh 4:15-19
    5 verses
    67%

    15It 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.

    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.

  • Ezra 8:15
    67%

    15I gathered them together to the river that runs to Ahava; and there we encamped three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.

  • Neh 2:15-16
    2 verses
    67%

    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.

  • Lev 14:47
    67%

    47He who lies down in the house shall wash his clothes; and he who eats in the house shall wash his clothes.

  • Ezra 4:14
    67%

    14Now because we eat the salt of the palace, and it is not appropriate for us to see the king's dishonor, therefore have we sent and informed the king;

  • Neh 13:30
    67%

    30Thus I cleansed them from all foreigners, and appointed duties for the priests and for the Levites, everyone in his work;

  • Neh 2:12
    67%

    12I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem; neither was there any animal with me, except the animal that I rode on.

  • Deut 23:10-11
    2 verses
    66%

    10If there is among you any man who is not clean by reason of that which happens him by night, then shall he go outside of the camp. He shall not come within the camp:

    11but it shall be, when evening comes on, he shall bathe himself in water; and when the sun is down, he shall come within the camp.

  • Lev 17:16
    66%

    16But if he doesn't wash them, or bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity.'"

  • Neh 4:9
    66%

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

  • Neh 9:1
    66%

    1Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackcloth, and earth on them.

  • Ezra 8:21-22
    2 verses
    66%

    21Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek of him a straight way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.

    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."

  • Dan 3:21
    66%

    21Then these men were bound in their pants, their tunics, and their mantles, and their [other] garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.

  • John 13:4
    66%

    4arose from supper, and laid aside his outer garments. He took a towel, and wrapped a towel around his waist.

  • Ezra 9:3-5
    3 verses
    66%

    3When I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my robe, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down confounded.

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    5At the evening offering I arose up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn; and I fell on my knees, and spread out my hands to Yahweh my God;

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    66%

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    66%

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  • Num 31:20
    66%

    20As to every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats' [hair], and all things made of wood, you shall purify yourselves."

  • Ezek 23:15
    66%

    15dressed with girdles on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them princes to look on, after the likeness of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.

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    65%

    22I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Remember to me, my God, this also, and spare me according to the greatness of your loving kindness.

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    65%

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    65%

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    65%

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  • 1 Chr 19:4
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    65%

    27Whoever touches these things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.