Nehemiah 4 Cross References - VIN

¹ But when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and was very indignant, and mocked the Jews. ² And he spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria and said, What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, seeing they are burnt? ³ Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, "What they are building, if a fox climbed up it, he would break down their stone wall." ⁴ “Hear, our God; for we are despised. Turn back their reproach on their own head. Give them up for a plunder in a land of captivity. ⁵ and neither cover their perversity nor wipe away their sin from your face: for they vex you in front of the builders. ⁶ So we rebuilt the wall, and all of the wall was joined up to half its height. For the people had a heart to do it. ⁷ Now when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the restoration of the walls of Jerusalem were going forward and the gaps were being closed, they were very angry. ⁸ So all of them plotted together to come fight against Jerusalem and to make trouble for it. ⁹ But we prayed to our God. We also set up guards day and night because of them. ¹⁰ Meanwhile, the people of Judah said, "The builders are tired and there's so much rubble that we can't reconstruct the wall!" ¹¹ Our enemies said, "Before they notice or see us, we'll penetrate their midst, kill them, and stop the work!" ¹² When the Jews who lived by them came, they said to us ten times from all places, “Wherever you turn, they will attack us.” ¹³ I stationed the people behind the deepest part of the wall in the open places according to their families, with their swords, spears, and bows. ¹⁴ And I looked, got up, and said to the nobles, prefects, and the rest of the people, "Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your houses." ¹⁵ It happened when our enemies heard that their plan was known to us, that God had frustrated it, and we all returned to the wall—each to his work. ¹⁶ From that day on, half of my helpers engaged in the work while the other half kept spears, shields, bows, and armor ready. The senior officials backed all of the Judeans ¹⁷ who worked on the wall. Those who carried building materials worked with one hand, carrying a spear in the other. ¹⁸ Each of the builders had his sword tied to his side while building. And the man who sounded the trumpet was beside me. ¹⁹ I said to the leaders and the rest of the people: "The work is extensive and widely spaced and we are far away from one another on the wall. ²⁰ Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally there to us. Our God will fight for us." ²¹ So we labored in the work. And half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning until the stars came out. ²² At the time I also said to the people, "Let each man and his servant spend the night inside Jerusalem, so that they will be a guard for us in the night and work in the day." ²³ So neither I nor my brothers nor my young men nor the men of the guard who were behind me took off our clothes. Each one kept his weapon even in the water.

¹ Now the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the returned exiles were building a temple for the LORD the God of Israel. ² they came to Zorobabel and to the chiefs of the families, and said, Let us build with you, for we, like you, seek our God, and we sacrifice to him, from the days of Asaradan, king of Assur, who brought us here. ³ But Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the rest of the heads of the fathers of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do with us to build a house unto our God; but we alone will build unto the LORD God of Israel as King Cyrus, the king of Persia, commanded us. ⁴ Then the people of the land discouraged the people of Judah and made them afraid to build ⁵ They hired counselors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.

¹⁰ But when Sanballat the Horonite and the Ammonite servant Tobiah heard this, they were greatly displeased that a person had come to seek the welfare of the Israelites.

¹⁹ But Sanballat the Horonite, the Ammonite servant Tobiah, and Geshem the Arab heard it, and they mocked and despised us, saying, "What is this thing that you are doing? Are you rebelling 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 Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.

¹³ Thou hast made us a reproach to our neighbours; a scoff and derision to those around us. ¹⁴ You made our defeat a proverb among the nations so that people shake their heads at us.

²⁹ And they twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on His head. They put a staff in His right hand and knelt down before Him to mock Him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”

¹⁷ Then the high priest and all his associates (who belonged to the party of the Sadducees) rose up with jealousy.

³⁶ Others endured mockings and scourgings, still others were delivered to bonds and imprisonment:

¹¹ So they revealed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines, and the Philistines said, Look, the Hebrews are crawling out of the holes they were hiding in! ¹² The men of the garrison shouted to Jonathan and his armour bearer, Come up to us and we will show you something! Jonathan said to his armour bearer, Come up after me, for the LORD has delivered them into the hand of Israel.

⁴³ The Philistine said to David, Am I a dog that you come at me with sticks? The Philistine cursed David by his gods. ⁴⁴ said to David, "Come to me! I'll give your flesh to the birds of the sky and to the beasts of the field."

⁹ (then Rehum the royal officer, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their associates, the judges, the envoys, the officials, the Persians, the Erechs, the Babylonians, the Susians (that is the Elamites) ¹⁰ and the rest of the peoples, whom the great and noble Osnappar hath exiled, and set in the city of Samaria,—and the rest Beyond the River, and so forth:

¹⁰ Meanwhile, the people of Judah said, "The builders are tired and there's so much rubble that we can't reconstruct the wall!"

²⁷ At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, they invited the Levites to come from wherever they lived to Jerusalem so they could celebrate the dedication with joy, thanksgiving, and songs, accompanied by cymbals, lyres, and harps.

⁴³ And on that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced. Because God had given them great joy, therefore their wives and their children rejoiced, and the joy of Jerusalem was heard at a great distance.

³ He said to me: "Son of man, can these bones live?" I answered, "O Sovereign LORD, you know." ⁴ And He said to me, Prophesy to these bones and say to them, O dry bones, hear the word of the LORD: ⁵ "'The Sovereign LORD says to these bones: "I will cause breath to enter you that you may come to life. ⁶ I will lay sinews on you, and will bring up flesh on you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you will live. Then you will know that I am the LORD.”'” ⁷ So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone. ⁸ And I beheld and lo! sinews and flesh were grown upon them, and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them. ⁹ Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and tell the wind, 'The Sovereign LORD says: “Come from the four winds, breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.”'” ¹⁰ So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath entered into them, and they lived, and stood upon their feet, a very great congregation. ¹¹ Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost. We are clean cut off. ¹² Prophesy and tell them: 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: "My people, I will open your graves and take you out of them. I will bring you to Israel. ¹³ So shall ye know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves, and bring you out of them.

² LORD, I have heard of your fame. I stand in awe of your deeds, LORD. Renew your work in the midst of the years. In the midst of the years make it known. In wrath, you remember mercy.

⁸ "In that day the LORD will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. He that is feeble among them will be like David. For the house of David will be like God, like the angel of the LORD before them.

²⁷ But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.

¹⁰ Then Ben-hadad sent to him, saying, May the gods' punishment be on me if there is enough of the dust of Samaria for all the people at my feet to take some in their hands.

¹⁸ He said, "If they have come out for peace, take them alive; or if they have come out for war, take them alive."

²³ And now, take a chance with my master, the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able to put horsemen on them.

¹ Now when it was reported to Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and to the rest of our enemies that I had built the wall and that no gap was left in it—though up to that time I had not erected doors in the gates—

¹⁸ Because of Mount Zion which is desolate, foxes prowl about it."

²⁶ David asked the men who were standing by him, "What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? Indeed, who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?"

¹² Pay back our neighbors seven times the reproach with which they reproached you, LORD.

³ Have mercy on us, LORD, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt. ⁴ For long enough have men of pride made sport of our soul.

³⁴ Surely He mocks the mockers, but He gives grace to the humble.

¹⁴ Ephraim has bitterly provoked anger, therefore his blood will be left on him, and his Lord will repay his contempt.

¹ To the Director: A Davidic Psalm. When the prophet Nathan came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.. Have mercy, God, according to your gracious love, according to your unlimited compassion, erase my transgressions.

⁹ Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.

⁵ You, LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, rouse yourself to punish the nations. Show no mercy to the wicked traitors. Selah. ⁶ They return at evening, howling like dogs, and prowl around the city. ⁷ See what pours out of their mouths, swords from their lips! They think: Who will hear us? ⁸ But you, LORD, laugh at them. You scoff at all the nations. ⁹ My Strength, I will watch for you, for God is my fortress. ¹⁰ My God of loving-kindness will come to meet me. He will let me gloat over those who spy on me. ¹¹ Don't kill them! Otherwise, my people may forget. By your power make them stumble around; bring them down low, Lord, our Shield. ¹² For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter. ¹³ Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they be no more: and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob, unto the ends of the earth. [Selah

²⁷ Charge them with crime upon crime. Do not let them come into your righteousness. ²⁸ Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.

¹⁴ Let the iniquity of his ancestors be remembered before the LORD, and let the sin of his mother not be blotted out.

¹¹ And Eliakim and Shebna and Joah said to the chief of the cupbearers, Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. But do not speak to us in Jewish in the ears of the people on the wall. ¹² And Rab-shakeh said, Is it to thy master and to thee that my master sent me to speak these words? Is it not to the men that sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own urine with you?

²⁵ I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

²² I have wiped your transgressions out like a cloud and your sins like mist. Return to me, for I have redeemed you!"

²³ Yet, the LORD, you know all their counsel against me to kill me. Don't forgive their iniquity. Don't blot out their sin from your sight, Let them be overthrown before you. Deal with them in the time of your anger.

¹⁴ Alexander, the metal-worker, did me a great deal of harm. The Lord will repay him for what he did.

³ And moreover, in my affection for the house of my God I have given of my own property of gold and silver, for the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the house of the sanctuary:

¹⁴ But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come from you, and we have given you of your own.

¹⁷ And I know, my God, that You try the heart and are pleased with uprightness; I, in the uprightness of my heart, have offered willingly all these things; and now I have watched with joy Your people who are present here offering willingly to You. ¹⁸ "the LORD, God of our ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, keep such devotion always strong in your people’s hearts and keep them always faithful to you.

³⁶ And Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced, because God had prepared the people: for the thing was done suddenly.

¹⁵ So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth of Elul, in fifty-two days.

³ Your people will volunteer in the day of your power. In holy splendor, from the womb of the dawn, you will have the dew of your youth.

¹⁶ But thanks be to God, who put into the heart of Titus the same devotion I have for you. ¹⁷ For not only did he welcome our appeal, but he is eagerly coming to you of his own volition.

¹³ For it is God who works in you to will and to act on behalf of His good pleasure.

²¹ equip you with every good thing to do His will. And may He accomplish in us what is pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

¹⁵ And I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed. He will bruise your head and you will bruise his heel.

⁷ In his burning anger against Israel, he sold them into domination by the Philistines and the Ammonites, ⁸ They troubled and oppressed the Israelites that year. For eighteen years they oppressed all the Israelites that were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead. ⁹ The Ammonites crossed the Jordan to fight also against Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim; and Israel was very distressed. ¹⁰ Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, saying, "We have sinned against you; we have abandoned our God and served the Baals." ¹¹ the LORD answered: "Did I free you from the Egyptians, the Amorites, the Ammonites, and the Philistines? ¹² the Sidonians, the Amalekites and the Maonites oppress you? And ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hands. ¹³ Yet you have forsaken me, and served other gods: why I will deliver you no more. ¹⁴ "Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen! Let them save you in your time of trouble." ¹⁵ But the people of Israel said to the LORD: "We have sinned. Do to us what seems best to you, only please, save us today!" ¹⁶ When they put away their foreign gods and served the LORD, he brought Israel's misery to an end. ¹⁷ And the Ammonites were summoned, and they camped in Gilead. And the Israelites gathered and camped at Mizpah. ¹⁸ The people, the princes of Gilead, said one to another, Who will begin to fight against the Ammonites? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.

¹² Jephthah sent messengers to the king of Ammon. He said: "What do you have against us that you want to fight us? Why have you invaded our country?" ¹³ The king of Ammon answered Jephthah's messengers: "Because Israel took away our land when they came out of Egypt. They took land from the Arnon River to the Jabbok River and the Jordan River. Now you must give it back peacefully." ¹⁴ Jephthah sent messengers back to the king of Ammon. ¹⁵ and said to him, This is what Jephthah says: Israel didn't take away the land of Moab, nor the land of the Ammonites, ¹⁶ But when they came up out of Egypt, he walked through the desert to the Red Sea, and came into Cades. ¹⁷ then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Please let me pass through your land;’ but the king of Edom didn’t listen. In the same way, he sent to the king of Moab, but he refused; so Israel stayed in Kadesh. ¹⁸ Then they traveled through the wilderness, went around the land of Edom and Moab, and came to the east side of the land of Moab, and they encamped beyond the Arnon; and they did not go into the territory of Moab because the Arnon was the border of Moab. ¹⁹ And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorite, king of Hesbron, and Israel said to him, Let us pass through your land to our place. ²⁰ But Sihon didn't trust Israel to pass through his territory, so he assembled his entire army, encamped in Jahaz, and fought against Israel. ²¹ And the LORD, the God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they struck them. So Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, who lived in that country. ²² And all the coasts thereof from the Arnon to the Jaboc, and from the wilderness to the Jordan. ²³ So now the LORD, the God of Israel has driven out the Amorites from before His people Israel, and should you take it over? ²⁴ Do you not possess what Chemosh your god gave you to possess? Whoever the LORD our God has driven out before us, we will possess it. ²⁵ "'Do you think you are better than Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever challenge Israel or fight with them? ²⁶ "'Israel has occupied Heshbon and Aroer for three hundred years, and the towns around them, and all the cities on the banks of the Arnon River. Why did you not retake them during that time? ²⁷ "'I have not done you any wrong. You are doing wrong to me by making war on me. the LORD is the judge. He will decide today between the Israelites and the Ammonites.'" ²⁸ The king of Ammon paid no attention to this message from Jephthah. ²⁹ And the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed through Gilead and Manasseh. He passed through Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed through to the Ammonites. ³⁰ And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD, and he said, "If indeed you will give the Ammonites into my hand, ³¹ whatever comes out from the doors of my house to meet me when I return safely from the Ammonites will be the LORD's, and I will offer it as a burnt offering." ³² Jephthah crossed the river to fight the Ammonites, and the LORD gave him victory. ³³ And he defeated them with a very great blow, from Aroer as far as Minnith, twenty towns, up to Abel Keramim. And the Ammonites were subdued before the Israelites. ³⁴ When Jephthah arrived at his home in Mizpah surprise! it was his daughter who came out to meet him, playing tambourines and dancing. She was his one and only child. Except for her, he had no other son or daughter. ³⁵ When he saw her he tore his clothes and said, Alas my daughter! You have made me very sad and troubled, for I have made a vow to the LORD and I can't go back on it. ³⁶ She said: "If you made a promise to the LORD, do what you said you would do to me, since the LORD has given you revenge on your enemies, the Ammonites." ³⁷ Then she said to her father, Only do this for me: let me have two months to go away into the mountains with my friends, weeping for my sad fate. ³⁸ So he said, "Go!" He sent her away for two months. She left with her friends and cried there on the mountains because she would never marry. ³⁹ And the two months being expired, she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed, and she knew no man. From thence came a fashion in Israel, and a custom has been kept: ⁴⁰ that the daughters of Israel went yearly four days in a year to commemorate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.

¹ Now the Philistines had captured the ark of God and brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod. ² They took the ark of God into the house of Dagon and set it beside Dagon.

² Nahash the Ammonite said to them, "I'll make a covenant with you on the condition that I gouge out the right eye of every one of you and so bring disgrace on all Israel."

¹ Sometime later, the Ammonite king died and his son Hanun succeeded him as king, ² And David said, I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father showed kindness to me. So David sent by his servants to comfort him concerning his father. And David's servants came into the land of the sons of Ammon. ³ the Ammonite princes asked their master Hanun: "Do you think David is honoring your father because he sent men to comfort you? Perhaps David sent his men to explore the city, spy on it, and destroy it." ⁴ And Hanun took David's servants and shaved off half their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, to their buttocks, and sent them away. ⁵ When they told David this, he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed. The king said, “Wait at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return.”

² the LORD sent raiding parties of Babylonians, Arameans, Moabites, and Ammonites against Jehoiakim to destroy Judah as the LORD predicted through his servants the prophets.

¹ Shortly after that the Moabites, Ammonites, and some of the Meunites came to wage war against Jehoshaphat.

⁶ Uzziah went to wage war against the Philistines. He tore down the walls of Gath, Jabneh, and Ashdod. He built cities near Ashdod and elsewhere among the Philistines. ⁷ God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians who lived in Gur Baal, and the Meunim. ⁸ The Ammonites paid taxes to Uzziah. His fame spread to the border of Egypt because he became very powerful.

⁴ Then the people of the land discouraged the people of Judah and made them afraid to build ⁵ They hired counselors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia. ⁶ At the beginning of the reign of Ahasuerus, they lodged a formal accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem. ⁷ In the time of Artaxerxes, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his friends, sent a letter to Artaxerxes, king of Persia, writing it in the Aramaic language. ⁸ Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king as follows, ⁹ (then Rehum the royal officer, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their associates, the judges, the envoys, the officials, the Persians, the Erechs, the Babylonians, the Susians (that is the Elamites) ¹⁰ and the rest of the peoples, whom the great and noble Osnappar hath exiled, and set in the city of Samaria,—and the rest Beyond the River, and so forth: ¹¹ This is the copy of the letter that they sent: To King Artaxerxes, From your servants the men beyond the River. ¹² be it known to the king that the Jews who have come up from near you to us have gone to Jerusalem. They are building the rebellious and wicked city. They are finishing the wall and repairing the foundation. ¹³ Now be it known to the king that if this city is built and the walls are finished, they will not pay tribute and toll, and the royal revenue will be reduced. ¹⁴ Now, since we eat the salt of the palace, and it is not right for us to see the king`s injury, therefore have we sent and informed the king; ¹⁵ that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers. You will see in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful to kings and provinces, and that they have started rebellions within it in the past. That is why this city was destroyed. ¹⁶ We inform the king that, if this city is built and the walls finished, then you will have no possession beyond the River.

⁸ May it be known to the king that we went to the province of Judah, the house of the great God. It is being built with stone blocks and timber is being put in the walls. This work is being done with diligence and is making progress in their hands.

¹ But when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and was very indignant, and mocked the Jews.

²³ Also in those days I saw Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. ²⁴ and their children spoke half in the language of Ashdod, and did not know how to speak in the Jewish language.

²⁰ and all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, all the kings of the Philistines, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;

³ "Tell the Ammonites: 'Hear the word of the Sovereign LORD! The Sovereign LORD says: "Because you said, Aha! Against My sanctuary when it was profaned, and against the land of Israel when it was made desolate, and against the house of Judah when they went into exile, ⁴ »‘»I am going to give you to the sons of the east for a possession. They will set their encampments among you and make their dwellings among you. They will eat your fruit and drink your milk. ⁵ "'"I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels and the Ammonites a resting place for flocks. So you will know that I am the LORD."'" ⁶ For thus says the Sovereign LORD: Because you have clapped your hands and stamped with the feet and rejoiced with all the spite of your soul against the land of Israel, ⁷ therefore look! I stretched out my hand against you, and I will give you as plunder to the nations, and I will cut you off from the peoples, and I will destroy you from the countries, and I will wipe you out, and you will know that I am the LORD."

⁸ And I will cut off the people from Ashdod, and him who holds the scepter from Ashkelon, and I will turn My hand against Ekron. And the rest of the Philistines shall perish, says the Sovereign LORD.

¹³ This is what the LORD says: "For three transgressions of the Ammonites and now for a fourth I will not turn away; because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead in order to enlarge their national borders.

⁹ Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria, and see what unrest is in her, and what oppression is among them.

⁵ "Ashkelon will see it and fear! Gaza will be pained and Ekron will be put to shame. The king will perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon will not be inhabited. ⁶ Foreigners will dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

¹⁷ But to keep this message from spreading any further among the people, we must warn them to speak no more to anyone in this name.” ¹⁸ Then they called them in again and commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.

³³ When they heard this, they were furious, and wanted to kill them.

¹² Rejoice then, O heavens and you that dwell in them! But woe to the earth and the sea, for the devil has come down to you in great wrath, because he knows that his time is short!" ¹³ When the Dragon saw that he had been hurled to the earth he pursued the woman who had given birth to the man-child.

¹⁷ Then the dragon was enraged with the woman, and went off to make war on the rest of her offspring, on those who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus.

¹ Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot in vain? ² The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the LORD and against his Anointed One. ³ "Let us break their bands asunder and throw off from us their yoke."

³ They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones. ⁴ “Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.” ⁵ Indeed, they shrewdly planned together, forming an alliance against you ⁶ the tents of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarites; ⁷ Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia with the dwellers of Tyre;" ⁸ Even Assyria joined them to strengthen the descendants of Lot. [Interlude] ⁹ Do to them as you did to Midian, as you did to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon ¹⁰ who perished at Endor, and became as the dung of the earth. ¹¹ Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,

⁹ Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! Dress for battle, and be shattered! ¹⁰ ⌊Make a plan⌋, but it will be frustrated! Speak a word, but it will not stand, for God is with us!

¹⁰ Indeed, I hear many people whispering, "Terror on every side. Denounce him, let's denounce him!" All my close friends watch my steps and say, "Perhaps he will be deceived, and we can prevail against him and take vengeance on him."

¹² When daylight came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul. ¹³ More than forty of them were involved in this plot.

⁹ Then Jacob prayed: "O God of my father Abraham, the God of my father Isaac, O LORD, you said to me: 'Go back to your country and your family and I will be good to you.' ¹⁰ I am not worthy of all the loyal love and all the faithfulness that you have shown your servant, for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two camps. ¹¹ Deliver me from the hands of my brother Esau, for I fear him: lest he will come and smite the mother with the children. ¹² And you said, I will surely do you good, and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.

²⁸ And he said, Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel: for in your fight with God and with men you have overcome.

¹⁴ Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD. ¹⁵ And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, saying, O LORD God of Israel, who dwellest above the cherubim, thou alone art the God unto all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth. ¹⁶ Incline your ear, the LORD, and hear. Open your eyes, the LORD, and see. Hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to defy the living God. ¹⁷ Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands ¹⁸ and have thrown their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone, and they have destroyed them. ¹⁹ And now, O Lord our God, deliver us out of his hand, and all the kingdoms of the earth shall know that You alone are the Lord God.

¹¹ Our enemies said, "Before they notice or see us, we'll penetrate their midst, kill them, and stop the work!"

¹⁵ Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me."

¹⁶ But I call on God, and the LORD saves me. ¹⁷ Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice. ¹⁸ He redeems my soul in peace from the war being waged against me for they were many with me. ¹⁹ God, who is enthroned forever, will hear, and answer them. Selah. They never change, those who don't fear God. ²⁰ He raises his hands against his friends, he has violated his covenant. ²¹ His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords. ²² Cast your burden on the LORD, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

⁴¹ “Watch and pray so that you will not enter into temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak.”

¹¹ But they were filled with rage, and began to discuss with one another what they might do to Jesus. ¹² In those days, Jesus went out to the mountain to pray, and He spent the night in prayer to God.

³⁶ But watch at all times, and pray that ye may be able to escape all the things that are about to come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

²⁴ And when they heard this, they lifted their voices to God together and said, "Sovereign Lord, it is you who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and everything in them, ²⁵ You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Your servant, our father David: ‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot in vain? ²⁶ The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the Lord and against His Anointed One.’ ²⁷ For in truth both Herod and Pontius Pilate, together with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, assembled together in this city against your holy servant Jesus whom you anointed, ²⁸ They carried out what Your hand and purpose had decided beforehand would happen. ²⁹ And now, Lord, consider their threats, and enable Your servants to speak Your word with complete boldness, ³⁰ as You stretch out Your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of Your holy servant Jesus.”

⁸ Be clear-minded and alert. Your opponent, the devil, is prowling around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.

³¹ The men who had gone with him said: "We cannot attack those people! They are too strong for us!

⁹ they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, and discouraged the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land that the LORD had given them.

¹⁸ He conscripted 70,000 of them to do heavy work, 80,000 to quarry in the hill country, and 3,600 men to supervise the people.

¹ In the LORD, I take refuge. How can you say to my soul, "Flee as a bird to your mountain." ² For lo, the wicked bend their bow, they arrange their arrow upon the string, to shoot in the dark at the upright in heart.

¹⁸ "Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre. Every head was made bald and every shoulder was rubbed bare. But he and his army had no wages from Tyre for the labor that he had performed against it.

² "This is what the LORD of hosts says: These people say, 'The time hasn't yet come, the time for the LORD's house to be built.'"

²⁹ Israel set ambushes all around Gibeah. ³⁰ They went up against the Benjamites on the third day and set themselves in position against Gibeah as before. ³¹ The Benjamites went out against them and were drawn away from the city. They began to fight the Israelites as before, on the highways on the way to Bethel and Gibeah, and in the field, killing about thirty men of Israel. ³² The Benjamites said, We are defeating them as before. But the Israelites said, Let's retreat and draw them away from the city to the highways. ³³ And all the men of Israel got up from their places and took up positions in Baal Tamar; and the ambush of Israel charged from their places, from the vicinity of Gibeah. ³⁴ Ten thousand, specially chosen men, out of all Israel, attacked Gibeah, and the fighting was fierce. The Benjaminites did not realize they were about to be destroyed. ³⁵ the LORD defeated Benjamin before Israel, and the Israelites destroyed twenty five thousand one hundred armed Benjamites that day. ³⁶ Then the Benjamites saw that they were defeated, for the men of Israel had given way to Benjamin, trusting in the ambush which they had set against Gibeah. ³⁷ The men in the ambush rushed into Gibeah, spread out and put all the city to the sword. ³⁸ And the children of Israel had a signal of battle with the liers in wait, that they should send up a signal of smoke from the city. ³⁹ So, when the men of Israel turned in the battle,—and, the Benjamites, began to smite and slay of the sons of Israel, about thirty men, for they said, Yea! they are, smitten, before us, as in the first battle, ⁴⁰ But when the smoke began to go up out of the city, the Benjamites looked behind them and saw the whole city going up in smoke. ⁴¹ Then the men of Israel turned on them and the men of Benjamin were terrified, seeing that disaster had come on them. ⁴² So they fled before the men of Israel towards the wilderness, but they could not escape the battle, and the Israelites who came out of the cities destroyed them there. ⁴³ They surrounded the Benjamites, chased them and ran them down as far as Gibeah toward the east. ⁴⁴ Eighteen thousand valiant men of Benjamin fell. ⁴⁵ They turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon: and they killed on the highways five thousand men, and followed hard after them to Gidom, and struck down two thousand men. ⁴⁶ So that day twenty-five thousand valiant fighters of Benjamin were killed. ⁴⁷ But six hundred men turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and stayed there four months. ⁴⁸ The men of Israel went back to Benjamin and put to the sword everything in the towns, including the livestock, and anything they found. All the towns which they found they set on fire.

² and I will come upon him when he is weary and weak-handed, and I will strike him with terror; and all the people with him shall flee, and I will smite the king only of all.

⁶ They conspire and lurk, watching my steps. They are eager to take my life.

¹¹ Yet shall evil came upon thee; thou shalt not know how to charm it away; and calamity shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it away; and ruin shall come upon thee suddenly, before thou knowest.

¹² When daylight came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul.

²¹ Don't believe them, because more than 40 of them are planning to ambush him. They have taken an oath not to eat or drink before they have killed him. They are ready now, just waiting for your consent."

² for you yourselves know very well that the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

⁷ and your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, but God has not allowed him to harm me.

⁴¹ Thus have I been twenty years in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flocks: and you have changed my wages ten times.

²² For all the men having seen my glory and my signs which I did in Egypt and in the desert, and they will try me this ten times, they heard not to my voice.

³ These ten times, have ye reviled me, Shameless ye wrong me.

¹³ And he lodged there that night. Then he took from what he had with him a gift for Esau his brother: ¹⁴ two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, ¹⁵ also thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys. ¹⁶ And he put them under the hand of his servants, herd by herd, and said to his servants, "Cross on ahead before me, and put some distance between herds. ¹⁷ He commanded the first servant: "When my brother Esau meets you and asks you, 'To whom do you belong, and where are you going, and whose animals are these ahead of you?' ¹⁸ Then you shall say, 'They are your servant, Jacob's. It is a present sent to my lord, Esau. Look, he also is behind us.'" ¹⁹ He also commanded the second servant, the third, and all the others who followed the herds. He said: »Say the same thing to Esau when you find him. ²⁰ And say moreover, Behold, your servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face; perhaps he will accept me.

² When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come, and that he intended to fight against Jerusalem, ³ He consulted with his princes and his mighty men to stop up the waters of the springs which were without the city: and they helped him. ⁴ A large crowd gathered as they stopped all the springs and the brook that flowed through the land. They said: Why should the kings of Assyria find plenty of water? ⁵ Hezekiah worked hard. He rebuilt all the broken sections of the wall. He built the towers taller and built another wall outside the city wall. He strengthened the Millo in the City of David, and made plenty of weapons and shields. ⁶ and appointed military officers over the people; and having assembled them before him in the street of the valley gate, he spoke affectionately to them, and said, ⁷ “Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or dismayed because of the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude who is with him; for there is a greater one with us than with him. ⁸ with him, is an arm of flesh, but, with us, is the LORD our God, to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people leaned upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

¹⁷ who worked on the wall. Those who carried building materials worked with one hand, carrying a spear in the other. ¹⁸ Each of the builders had his sword tied to his side while building. And the man who sounded the trumpet was beside me.

⁵ Well will it be with the man who is kind, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with justice.

⁷ Look, it is Solomon's carriage. Sixty mighty men are around it, of the mighty men of Israel. ⁸ All of them are wearing swords and are experienced in battle. Each has his sword on his thigh, ready for the terror of the night.

¹⁶ Look, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.

²⁰ Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.

¹¹ Put on the full armor of God, so that you can make your stand against the devil’s schemes. ¹² For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this world’s darkness, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. ¹³ Therefore put on the full armour of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to withstand it; and after you have done everything, to stand firm. ¹⁴ Stand firm then, with the belt of truth fastened around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness arrayed, ¹⁵ and with your feet fitted with the readiness of the gospel of peace. ¹⁶ In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. ¹⁷ Take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. ¹⁸ Pray in the Spirit at all times, with every kind of prayer and petition. To this end, stay alert with all perseverance in your prayers for all the saints. ¹⁹ Pray also for me, that whenever I open my mouth, divine utterance may be given me, so that I will boldly make known the mystery of the gospel, ²⁰ for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may proclaim it fearlessly, as I should.

⁹ Only, do not rebel against the LORD. And you, do not fear the people of the land, for they are our bread; their defense has turned away from them; and the LORD is with us; do not be afraid of them.

²¹ See, the LORD your God has set before you the land; go up and possess it as the LORD the God of your ancestors said to you; do not fear and do not be dismayed.'

²⁹ Then I said to you, “Don’t be terrified. Don’t be afraid of them. ³⁰ the LORD your God, who is going before you, will himself fight for you, just as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,

¹⁷ For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, mighty, and awesome, who regards not persons, nor takes reward:

³ He should say: "Listen, Israel, today you are going into battle against your enemies. Do not lose your courage! Do not be afraid. Do not tremble because of them. ⁴ For the LORD your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

⁹ Haven't I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don't be afraid. Don't be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.”

¹² Be strong, and let us shew ourselves valiant for our people and for the cities of our God; and the LORD do what is good in his sight.

¹⁵ And he said, Listen, all Judah, and you people of Jerusalem, and King Jehoshaphat! So says the LORD to you, Do not be afraid nor dismayed because of this great multitude. For the battle is not yours, but God's. ¹⁶ Tomorrow go down against them. Behold, they are coming up the ascent of Ziz. And you will find them at the end of the valley facing the desert of Jeruel. ¹⁷ You will not need to fight this battle. Set yourselves, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem. Do not be afraid, nor be dismayed. Go out against them tomorrow, for the LORD is with you.'"

⁷ “Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or dismayed because of the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude who is with him; for there is a greater one with us than with him.

⁵ and said, "I beg you, LORD, the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments:

²² Out of the north comes golden splendor. With God is awesome majesty.

⁷ Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.

¹ The LORD is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

¹¹ the LORD Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

⁵ By awesome deeds you answer us in righteousness, O God of our salvation. You are trusted to the ends of the earth and the farthest sea.

³ Say to God: "How awesome are your works! Because of your great strength your enemies cringe before you."

⁵ Come, and see the works of God, awesome in actions toward the sons of men.

¹⁰ Then I thought: I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High. ¹¹ I will remember the deeds of Yah. Surely I will remember your wonders from long ago. ¹² I will also meditate on all your work and consider your activities. ¹³ Your way, O God, is holy: what god is so great as our God? ¹⁴ You are the God who works wonders; you have made known your might among the peoples. ¹⁵ With your arm you redeemed your people, the children of Jacob and Joseph. Selah ¹⁶ The waters saw you, God. The waters saw you, and they writhed. The depths also convulsed. ¹⁷ The clouds poured out water. The skies resounded with thunder. Your arrows also flashed around. ¹⁸ The voice of Your thunder was in the whirlwind, the lightnings lit up the world, the earth trembled and shook. ¹⁹ Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known. ²⁰ You led your people like a flock, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

⁵ I remember the days of long ago; I meditate on all your doings. I muse on the labor of your hands.

¹⁰ "'Do not fear for I am with you! Do not be dismayed for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.' ¹¹ "All who rage against you will be ashamed and disgraced. Those who oppose you will be as nothing and perish. ¹² "Though you search for your enemies, you will not find them. Those who wage war against you will be as nothing at all. ¹³ "I AM the LORD, YOUR GOD! I take hold of your right hand and say to you: Do not fear; I will help you. ¹⁴ "Do not be afraid, O worm Jacob, O little Israel, for I will help you. This is the declaration of the LORD, your Redeemer, and the Holy One of Israel.

¹² "I, even I, am the one who comforts you. Who are you that you fear mortal men? The sons of men are like grass! ¹³ And you forget the LORD your Maker, who has stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. And you dread continually, every day, because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy. And where is the fury of the oppressor?

¹¹ Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people, saying, “Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he who put his Holy Spirit among them?” ¹² Who caused his glorious arm to be at Moses' right hand? Who divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name? ¹³ Who led them through the depths, like a horse in the wilderness, so that they didn’t stumble?

¹ Oh that You would tear the heavens and come down, that mountains would quake before You. ² Be like the fire that kindles brushwood and makes water boil. Come down to make your name known to your enemies. The nations may tremble in your presence. ³ When you did awe-inspiring things that we did not expect, you came down and the mountains quaked at your presence.

² The LORD is a jealous God and avenges. The LORD avenges and is full of wrath. The LORD takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he maintains wrath against his enemies. ³ the LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and doth not at all clear [the guilty]: the LORD, -- his way is in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. ⁴ He rebukes the sea and he dries up the rivers; he makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither; the blossom of Lebanon languishes. ⁵ The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, yes, the world, and all who dwell in it. ⁶ His indignation—who can stand before it? Who can endure his fierce anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; rocks are shattered before him. ⁷ the LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and He knows those who trust in Him.

²⁸ Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

²⁰ (because they could not bear what was commanded: “If even an animal touches the mountain it must be stoned!” ²¹ The sight was so terrifying that Moses said, "I am trembling with fear."

²⁸ Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and offer to God acceptable worship with reverence and awe, ²⁹ for our God is a consuming fire.

⁶ So we say with confidence, "The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?"

³¹ Now David was told, "Ahithophel was among the conspirators with Absalom." Then David said, "Please frustrate the counsel of Ahithophel, O LORD."

¹⁴ Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The advice of Hushai the Arkite is better than the advice of Ahithophel." (Now the LORD had ordained to frustrate the good counsel of Ahithophel in order for the LORD to bring misery upon Absalom).

¹² He frustrates the plans of the crafty; so that what they work for never succeeds. ¹³ He is capturing the wise in their craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are rushed.

¹⁰ the LORD nullifies the counsel of the nations. He frustrates the plans of the peoples. ¹¹ The counsel of the LORD stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

³⁰ There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.

¹⁰ ⌊Make a plan⌋, but it will be frustrated! Speak a word, but it will not stand, for God is with us!

²⁵ who foils the omens of the empty talkers, and makes fools of diviners; who turns sages back, and makes their knowledge foolish;

³⁷ Who can speak and it will happen if the Lord has not commanded it? ³⁸ Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that disaster and good will come?

³⁴ It is like a man going on a journey, when he leaves his house and puts his servants in charge, each with his work, and commands the doorkeeper to be on the watch.

¹¹ Never be lacking in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serving the Lord.

¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness.” ²⁰ And again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.”

¹¹ Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you,

²³ So neither I nor my brothers nor my young men nor the men of the guard who were behind me took off our clothes. Each one kept his weapon even in the water.

¹⁵ But the former governors that were before me laid burdens upon the people, and took of them for bread and wine above forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants lorded over the people; but so did not I, because of the fear of God. ¹⁶ I also devoted myself to the work of this wall, and we did not buy land. All of my servants were gathered for the work.

⁶ My eyes will be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me. He who walks in a perfect way, he will minister to me.

²⁵ “Know therefore and discern that from the going out of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the prince, will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.

¹² If others have this right to your support, shouldn’t we have it all the more But we did not exercise this right. Instead, we put up with anything rather than hinder the gospel of Christ.

⁹ because a great door for effective work has opened to me, even though many oppose me.

¹³ Be on the alert. Stand firm in the faith. Be men of courage. Be strong.

⁷ in truthful speech and in the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;

²⁸ without being frightened in any way by those who oppose you. This is a clear sign of their destruction but of your salvation, and it is from God.

³ Endure hardship with me as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

⁷ I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

⁹ When you wage war in your land against an enemy who is hostile to you, then sound an alarm with the trumpets. Then you will be remembered before the face of the LORD your God and be delivered from your enemies.

¹² "God is with us as our leader. His priests will sound their trumpets to call the army to fight you. Men of Israel do not wage war against the LORD the God of your ancestors. You will not succeed." ¹³ Then Jeroboam sent around an ambush to come behind them. So they were in front of Judah, but the ambush was behind them. ¹⁴ When the army of Judah turned around to look, they were being attacked from both front and rear, so they cried out to the LORD while the priests sounded their trumpets. ¹⁵ and the men of Judah gave a shout. And as the men of Judah shouted, God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah. ¹⁶ And the Israelites fled before Juda, and the Lord delivered them into their hands, ¹⁷ Abijah and his men defeated them decisively. Five hundred thousand of the best men of Israel were killed.

¹⁴ The LORD will fight for you, and you shall be still."

²⁵ He made the wheels of their chariots wobble so that they drove them with difficulty. The Egyptians said, "Let's flee from Israel because the LORD is fighting for them and against us."

³⁰ the LORD your God, who is going before you, will himself fight for you, just as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,

²² Do not fear them, for the LORD your God himself will fight for you."

⁴ For the LORD your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

¹⁰ "One of you can make a thousand men run away, because the LORD your God is fighting for you, as he promised.

³ Then the LORD will go out and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.

¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

⁵⁸ Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and immovable. Always excel in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

⁹ And let us not grow weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap, if we do not give up.

²⁹ To this end I labor, striving with all His energy working powerfully within me.

¹ And the rulers of the people lived at Jerusalem. And the rest of the people cast lots, to bring one of every ten to live in Jerusalem, the holy city, and nine parts in other cities. ² And the people blessed all of the men who volunteered to live in Jerusalem.

¹¹ Far from the noise of archers, in the watering places, there they will recite the righteous acts of the LORD, the righteous acts of His rule in Israel. Then the people of the LORD went down to the gates.

⁴⁸ He traveled up to Mount Zalmon with his men. He took an ax, cut a limb off a tree, and put it on his shoulder. He told his men to hurry and do the same thing.

¹⁶ I also devoted myself to the work of this wall, and we did not buy land. All of my servants were gathered for the work.

² I gave command over Jerusalem to my brother Hanani and Hananiah the commander of the citadel. For he was a faithful man and feared God more than many.