Nehemiah 4:17

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

The builders on the wall, and the bearers of the burden, those lading, `each' with one of his hands is working in the business, and one is laying hold of the missile.

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  • Dan 9:25 : 25 And thou dost know, and dost consider wisely, from the going forth of the word to restore and to build Jerusalem till Messiah the Leader `is' seven weeks, and sixty and two weeks: the broad place hath been built again, and the rampart, even in the distress of the times.
  • 1 Cor 9:12 : 12 if others do partake of the authority over you -- not we more? but we did not use this authority, but all things we bear, that we may give no hindrance to the good news of the Christ.
  • 1 Cor 16:9 : 9 for a door to me hath been opened -- great and effectual -- and withstanders `are' many.
  • 1 Cor 16:13 : 13 Watch ye, stand in the faith; be men, be strong;
  • 2 Cor 6:7 : 7 in the word of truth, in the power of God, through the armour of the righteousness, on the right and on the left,
  • Eph 6:11-20 : 11 put on the whole armour of God, for your being able to stand against the wiles of the devil, 12 because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places; 13 because of this take ye up the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to resist in the day of the evil, and all things having done -- to stand. 14 Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about in truth, and having put on the breastplate of the righteousness, 15 and having the feet shod in the preparation of the good-news of the peace; 16 above all, having taken up the shield of the faith, in which ye shall be able all the fiery darts of the evil one to quench, 17 and the helmet of the salvation receive, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the saying of God, 18 through all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the Spirit, and in regard to this same, watching in all perseverance and supplication for all the saints -- 19 and in behalf of me, that to me may be given a word in the opening of my mouth, in freedom, to make known the secret of the good news, 20 for which I am an ambassador in a chain, that in it I may speak freely -- as it behoveth me to speak.
  • Phil 1:28 : 28 and not terrified in anything by those opposing, which to them indeed is a token of destruction, and to you of salvation, and that from God;
  • 2 Tim 2:3 : 3 thou, therefore, suffer evil as a good soldier of Jesus Christ;
  • 2 Tim 4:7 : 7 the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Neh 4:18-22
    5 verses
    90%

    18And the builders `are' each with his sword, girded on his loins, and building, and he who is blowing with a trumpet `is' beside me.

    19And I say unto the freemen, and unto the prefects, and unto the rest of the people, `The work is abundant, and large, and we are separated on the wall, far off one from another;

    20in the place that ye hear the voice of the trumpet thither ye are gathered unto us; our God doth fight for us.'

    21And we are working in the business, and half of them are keeping hold of the spears, from the going up of the dawn till the coming forth of the stars.

    22Also, at that time I said to the people, `Let each with his servant lodge in the midst of Jerusalem, and they have been to us by night a guard, and by day `for' the work:'

  • Neh 4:15-16
    2 verses
    83%

    15And it cometh to pass, when our enemies have heard that it hath been known to us, and God doth frustrate their counsel, and we turn back, all of us, unto the wall, each unto his work;

    16yea, it cometh to pass, from that day, half of my servants are working in the business, and half of them are keeping hold of both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the coats of mail; and the heads `are' behind all the house of Judah.

  • Neh 4:6-11
    6 verses
    80%

    6And we build the wall, and all the wall is joined -- unto its half, and the people have a heart to work.

    7And it cometh to pass, when Sanballat hath heard, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, that lengthening hath gone up to the walls of Jerusalem, that the breeches have begun to be stopped, then it is very displeasing to them,

    8and they conspire, all of them together, to come in to fight against Jerusalem, and to do to it injury.

    9And we pray unto our God, and appoint a watch against them, by day and by night, because of them.

    10And Judah saith, `The power of the burden-bearers hath become feeble, and the rubbish `is' abundant, and we are not able to build on the wall.'

    11And our adversaries say, `They do not know, nor see, till that we come in to their midst, and have slain them, and caused the work to cease.'

  • Neh 4:13
    76%

    13And I appoint at the lowest of the places, at the back of the wall, in the clear places, yea, I appoint the people, by their families, with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

  • Neh 5:16
    76%

    16And also, in the work of this wall I have done mightily, even a field we have not bought, and all my servants are gathered there for the work;

  • Ezra 4:4
    76%

    4And it cometh to pass, the people of the land are making the hands of the people of Judah feeble, and troubling them in building,

  • Neh 2:16-18
    3 verses
    75%

    16And the prefects have not known whither I have gone, and what I am doing; and to the Jews, and to the priests, and to the freemen, and to the prefects, and to the rest of those doing the work, hitherto I have not declared `it';

    17and I say unto them, `Ye are seeing the evil that we are in, in that Jerusalem `is' waste, and its gates have been burnt with fire; come and we build the wall of Jerusalem, and we are not any more a reproach.'

    18And I declare to them the hand of my God that is good upon me, and also the words of the king that he said to me, and they say, `Let us rise, and we have built;' and they strengthen their hands for good.

  • Ezra 1:5-6
    2 verses
    74%

    5And heads of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin rise, and the priests and the Levites, even every one whose spirit God hath waked, to go up to build the house of Jehovah, that `is' in Jerusalem;

    6and all those round about them have strengthened `them' with their hands, with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with precious things, apart from all that hath been offered willingly.

  • Neh 12:38
    74%

    38And the second thanksgiving company that is going over-against, and I after it, and half of the people on the wall from beyond the tower of the furnaces and unto the broad wall,

  • 2 Chr 24:13
    74%

    13And those doing the business work, and there goeth up lengthening to the work by their hand, and they establish the house of God, by its proper measure, and strengthen it.

  • Neh 6:9
    74%

    9for all of them are making us afraid, saying, `Their hands are too feeble for the work, and it is not done;' and now, strengthen Thou my hands.

  • 2 Kgs 22:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5and they give it into the hand of the doers of the work, the overseers, in the house of Jehovah, and they give it to the doers of the work that `is' in the house of Jehovah, to strengthen the breach of the house,

    6to artificers, and to builders, and `to repairers of' the wall, and to buy wood and hewn stones to strengthen the house;

  • Neh 6:16
    73%

    16and it cometh to pass, when all our enemies have heard, and all the nations who are round about us see, that they fall greatly in their own eyes, and know that by our God hath this work been done.

  • Ezra 5:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3At that time come to them hath Tatnai, governor beyond the river, and Shethar-Boznai, and their companions, and thus they are saying to them, `Who hath made for you a decree this house to build, and this wall to finish?'

    4Then thus we have said to them, `What `are' the names of the men who are building this building?'

  • 1 Chr 22:15
    72%

    15`And with thee in abundance `are' workmen, hewers and artificers of stone and of wood, and every skilful man for every work.

  • Neh 4:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1And it cometh to pass, when Sanballat hath heard that we are building the wall, that it is displeasing to him, and he is very angry and mocketh at the Jews,

    2and saith before his brethren and the force of Samaria, yea, he saith, `What `are' the weak Jews doing? are they left to themselves? do they sacrifice? do they complete in a day? do they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish? -- and they burnt!'

  • 2 Kgs 12:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11and have given the weighed money into the hands of those doing the work, those inspecting the house of Jehovah, and they bring it out to those working in the wood, and to builders who are working in the house of Jehovah,

    12and to those `repairing' the wall, and to hewers of stone, and to buy wood and hewn stones to strengthen the breach of the house of Jehovah, and for all that goeth out on the house, to strengthen it.

  • 2 Chr 34:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11and they give `it' to artificers, and to builders, to buy hewn stones, and wood for couplings and for beams to the houses that the kings of Judah had destroyed.

    12And the men are working faithfully in the business, and over them are appointed Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari, and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathite, to overlook; and of the Levites, every one understanding about instruments of song,

  • Ezra 5:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8`To Darius the king, all peace! be it known to the king that we have gone to the province of Judah, to the great house of God, and it is built `with' rolled stones, and wood is placed in the walls, and this work is done speedily, and prospering in their hand.

    9Then we have asked of these elders, thus we have said to them, Who hath made for you a decree this house to build, and this wall to finish?

  • Ezra 3:9
    72%

    9And Jeshua standeth, `and' his sons, and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, sons of Judah together, to overlook those doing the work in the house of God; the sons of Henadad, `and' their sons and their brethren the Levites.

  • Neh 3:19
    72%

    19And Ezer son of Jeshua, head of Mizpah, doth strengthen, by his hand, a second measure, from over-against the ascent of the armoury at the angle.

  • Isa 41:6-7
    2 verses
    72%

    6Each his neighbour they help, And to his brother he saith, `Be strong.'

    7And strengthen doth an artizan the refiner, A smoother `with' a hammer, Him who is beating `on' an anvil, Saying, `For joining it `is' good,' And he strengtheneth it with nails, it is not moved!

  • Ezra 4:12
    71%

    12Be it known to the king, that the Jews who have come up from thee unto us, have come in to Jerusalem, the rebellious and base city they are building, and the walls they have finished, and the foundations they join.

  • Ezra 4:1
    71%

    1And adversaries of Judah and Benjamin hear that the sons of the captivity are building a temple to Jehovah, God of Israel,

  • Neh 3:2
    71%

    2and by his hand have men of Jericho built; and by their hand hath Zaccur son of Imri built;

  • Ezra 6:7
    71%

    7let alone the work of this house of God, let the governor of the Jews, and the elders of the Jews, build this house of God on its place.

  • Hag 2:4
    70%

    4And now, be strong, O Zerubbabel, An affirmation of Jehovah, And be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest, And be strong, all ye people of the land, An affirmation of Jehovah, And do ye -- (for I `am' with you, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts) --

  • Zech 8:9
    70%

    9Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Let your hands be strong, Ye who are hearing in these days these words from the mouth of the prophets, That in the day the house of Jehovah of Hosts Hath been founded, the temple `is' to be built.

  • Neh 3:4
    70%

    4And by their hand hath Merimoth son of Urijah, son of Koz, strengthened; and by his hand hath Meshullam son of Berechiah, son of Meshezabeel, strengthened; and by his hand hath Zadok son of Baana strengthened;

  • Zech 4:9
    70%

    9Hands of Zerubbabel did found this house, And his hands do finish it, And thou hast known that Jehovah of Hosts Hath sent me unto you.