Nehemiah 3:5 Cross References - DouayRheims

⁵ And next to them the Thecuites built: but their great men did not put their necks to the work of their Lord.

²³ Curse ye the land of Meroz, said the angel of the Lord: curse the inhabitants thereof, because they came not to the help of the Lord, to help his most valiant men.

² Sent to Thecua, and fetched from thence a wise woman: and said to her: Feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on mourning apparel, and be not anointed with oil, that thou mayest be as a woman that had a long time been mourning for one dead.

²⁷ After him the Thecuites built another measure over against, from the great tower that standeth out unto the wall of the temple.

⁴ But I said: Perhaps these are poor and foolish, that know not the way of the Lord, the judgment of their God. ⁵ I will go therefore to the great men, and will speak to them: for they have known the way of the Lord, the judgment of their God: and behold these have altogether broken the yoke more, and have burst the bonds.

² Thus saith the Lord to me: Make thee bands, and chains: and thou shalt put them on thy neck.

⁸ But the nation and kingdom that will not serve Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and whosoever will not bend his neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon: I will visit upon that nation with the sword, and with famine, and with pestilence, saith the Lord: till I consume them by his hand.

¹² And I spoke to Sedecias the king of Juda according to all these words, saying: Bend down your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, and his people, and you shall live.

⁸ And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst his bands: and strangers shall no more rule over him: ⁹ But they shall serve the Lord their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them.

¹ The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Thecua: which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Ozias king of Juda, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joas king of Israel two years before the earthquake.

²⁹ Take up my yoke upon you, and learn of me, because I am meek, and humble of heart: And you shall find rest to your souls.

¹⁰ Now therefore, why tempt you God to put a yoke upon the necks of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?

²⁶ For see your vocation, brethren, that there are not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble.

¹⁷ Charge the rich of this world not to be highminded nor to trust in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God (who giveth us abundantly all things to enjoy) ¹⁸ To do good, to be rich in good work, to give easily, to communicate to others,