Nehemiah 4:1 Cross References - NSB

¹ Now, Sanballat, hearing that we were building the wall, was very angry, and in his wrath made sport of the Jews.

¹ News came to the enemies of Judah and Benjamin that the people who had come back were building a Temple to Jehovah, the God of Israel. ² They approached Zerubbabel and the heads of families and said: »Let us help you build for we are servants of your God, the same as you. We have been making offerings to him from the days of Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, who sent us here.« ³ But Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the rest of the heads of families in Israel said to them: »You have no part with us in the building of a house for our God. We will do the work for Jehovah, the God of Israel, as Cyrus, king of Persia, has given us orders.« ⁴ The people of the land discouraged the people of Judah and tried to make them afraid to go on building. ⁵ They hired men to work against them and kept them from accomplishing their plans during the reign of Cyrus, king of Persia, till Darius became king.

¹⁰ Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard I was coming. They were greatly troubled because a man came to help from the children of Israel.

¹⁹ But Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, hearing of it, made sport of us. They laughed at us and said: »What are you doing? Will you go against the king?«

¹⁵ Yet, when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together. They gathered together against me. Unknown attackers tore me apart without stopping. ¹⁶ With godless and abusive mockers, they grit their teeth at me.

¹³ You made us a reproach to our neighbors and an object of ridicule and contempt to those around us. ¹⁴ You made our defeat a proverb among the nations so that people shake their heads at us.

²⁹ They made a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They placed a rod in his right hand. Then they bowed down on their knees before him. They mocked him, saying: »Long life to the King of the Jews.«

¹⁷ Then the high priest rose up, and all those of the sect of the Sadducees who were with him were filled with zeal (indignation).

³⁶ And others had trial of cruel mocking and scourging and bonds and imprisonment.