"And conspired all of them together to come {and} to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it. {to hinder...: Heb. to ma…" — Nehemiah 4:8

Nehemiah 4:8 · KJV

“And conspired all of them together to come {and} to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it. {to hinder...: Heb. to make an error to it}”

— Nehemiah 4:8

Verse 7

But it came to pass, {that} when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, {and} that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth, {were made up: Heb. ascended}

Verse 9

Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.

Nehemiah 4 — Context

So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.

And conspired all of them together to come {and} to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it. {to hinder...: Heb. to make an error to it}

Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.

And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and {there is} much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.

Cross References

Psalms 83:3-11

They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.

Acts 23:12-13

And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. {under a curse: or, with an oath of execration}

Psalms 2:1-3

Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? {rage: or, tumultuously assemble} {imagine: Heb. meditate}

Jeremiah 20:10

For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, {say they}, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, {saying}, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him. {All...: Heb. Every man of my peace}

Isaiah 8:9-10

Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces. {people and: or, people, yet}