Nehemiah 4:3

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And Tobiah the Ammonite `is' by him and saith, `Also, that which they are building -- if a fox doth go up, then it hath broken down their stone wall.'

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  • Neh 2:10 : 10 and Sanballat the Horonite heareth, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and it is evil to them -- a great evil -- that a man hath come in to seek good for the sons of Israel.
  • Neh 2:19 : 19 And Sanballat the Horonite heareth, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, and they mock at us, and despise us, and say, `What `is' this thing that ye are doing? against the king are ye rebelling?'
  • Neh 6:1 : 1 And it cometh to pass, when it hath been heard by Sanballat, and Tobiah, and by Geshem the Arabian, and by the rest of our enemies, that I have builded the wall, and there hath not been left in it a breach, (also, till that time the doors I had not set up in the gates,)
  • Lam 5:18 : 18 For the mount of Zion -- that is desolate, Foxes have gone up on it.
  • 1 Kgs 20:10 : 10 And Ben-Hadad sendeth unto him, and saith, `Thus do the gods to me, and thus do they add, if the dust of Samaria suffice for handfuls for all the people who `are' at my feet.'
  • 1 Kgs 20:18 : 18 And he saith, `If for peace they have come out -- catch them alive; and if for battle they have come out -- alive catch them.'
  • 2 Kgs 18:23 : 23 `And, now, give a pledge for thee, I pray thee, to my lord the king of Asshur, and I give to thee two thousand horses, if thou art able to give for thee riders on them.

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  • Neh 4:1-2
    2 verses
    83%

    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!'

  • Neh 4:4-12
    9 verses
    79%

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

    5and do not cover over their iniquity, and their sin from before Thee let not be blotted out, for they have provoked to anger -- over-against those building.

    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.'

    12And it cometh to pass, when the Jews have come who are dwelling near them, that they say to us ten times from all the places whither ye return -- `they are' against us.

  • Neh 2:17-20
    4 verses
    76%

    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.

    19And Sanballat the Horonite heareth, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, and they mock at us, and despise us, and say, `What `is' this thing that ye are doing? against the king are ye rebelling?'

    20And I return them word, and say to them, `The God of the heavens -- He doth give prosperity to us, and we His servants rise and have built; and to you there is no portion, and right, and memorial in Jerusalem.'

  • Neh 6:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    1And it cometh to pass, when it hath been heard by Sanballat, and Tobiah, and by Geshem the Arabian, and by the rest of our enemies, that I have builded the wall, and there hath not been left in it a breach, (also, till that time the doors I had not set up in the gates,)

    2that Sanballat sendeth, also Geshem, unto me, saying, `Come and we meet together in the villages, in the valley of Ono;' and they are thinking to do to me evil.

  • Neh 6:12-17
    6 verses
    74%

    12And I discern, and lo, God hath not sent him, for in the prophecy he hath spoken unto me both Tobiah and Sanballat hired him,

    13so that he `is' an hireling, that I may fear and do so, and I had sinned, and it had been to them for an evil name that they may reproach me.

    14Be mindful, O my God, of Tobiah, and of Sanballat, according to these his works, and also, of Noadiah the prophetess, and of the rest of the prophets who have been making me afraid.

    15And the wall is completed in the twenty and fifth of Elul, on the fifty and second day;

    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.

    17Also, in those days the freemen of Judah are multiplying their letters going unto Tobiah, and those of Tobiah are coming in unto them;

  • Ezra 4:12-13
    2 verses
    73%

    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.

    13`Now, be it known to the king, that if this city be builded, and the walls finished, toll, tribute, and custom they do not give; and at length `to' the kings it doth cause loss.

  • Neh 2:10
    73%

    10and Sanballat the Horonite heareth, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and it is evil to them -- a great evil -- that a man hath come in to seek good for the sons of Israel.

  • 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?'

  • Neh 6:6
    72%

    6it is written in it, `Among the nations it hath been heard, and Gashmu is saying: Thou and the Jews are thinking to rebel, therefore thou art building the wall, and thou hast been to them for a king -- according to these words!

  • Neh 4:15
    72%

    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;

  • Neh 4:17-19
    3 verses
    71%

    17The 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.

    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;

  • 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,

  • Ezra 5:8-9
    2 verses
    70%

    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 4:4
    70%

    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 13:4
    70%

    4And before this Eliashib the priest, appointed over chambers of the house of our God, `is' a relation of Tobiah,

  • Neh 1:3
    70%

    3and they say to me, `Those left, who have been left of the captivity there in the province, `are' in great evil, and in reproach, and the wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burnt with fire.'

  • Ezra 4:16
    69%

    16We are making known to the king that, if this city be builded and the walls finished, by this means a portion beyond the river thou hast none.'

  • Neh 6:19
    68%

    19also, his good deeds they have been saying before me, and my words they have been taking out to him; letters hath Tobiah sent to make me afraid.

  • Neh 13:7
    68%

    7and I come in to Jerusalem, and understand concerning the evil that Eliashib hath done for Tobiah, to make to him a chamber in the courts of the house of God,

  • Neh 3:1
    68%

    1And Eliashib the high priest riseth, and his brethren the priests, and they build the sheep-gate; they have sanctified it, and set up its doors, even unto the tower of Meah they have sanctified it, unto the tower of Hananeel;

  • Isa 22:10
    68%

    10And the houses of Jerusalem ye did number, And ye break down the houses to fence the wall.

  • Neh 2:15
    68%

    15and I am going up through the brook by night, and am measuring about the wall, and turn back, and come in through the gate of the valley, and turn back.

  • Neh 3:19
    68%

    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.

  • Nah 2:5
    68%

    5He doth remember his honourable ones, They stumble in their goings, They hasten `to' its wall, and prepared is the covering.

  • Hab 2:11
    68%

    11For a stone from the wall doth cry out, And a holdfast from the wood answereth it.

  • Ezek 13:12
    68%

    12And lo, fallen hath the wall! Doth not one say unto you, Where `is' the daubing that ye daubed?

  • Lam 5:18
    67%

    18For the mount of Zion -- that is desolate, Foxes have gone up on it.