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Are they going to restore <i>it</i> for themselves? Can they offer sacrifices? Can they finish in a day? Can they revive the stones from the dusty rubble even the burned ones? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/4-3.htm" target="_top"><b>3</b></a></span>Now Tobiah the Ammonite <i>was</i> near him and he said, Even what they are buildingif a fox should jump on <i>it,</i> he would break their stone wall down!<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/4-4.htm" target="_top"><b>4</b></a></span>Hear, O our God, how we are despised! Return their reproach on their own heads and give them up for plunder in a land of captivity. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/4-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>Do not forgive their iniquity and let not their sin be blotted out before You, for they have demoralized the builders.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/4-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>So we built the wall and the whole wall was joined together to half its <i>height,</i> for the people had a mind to work.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/4-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>Now when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites and the Ashdodites heard that the repair of the walls of Jerusalem went on, <i>and</i> that the breaches began to be closed, they were very angry. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/4-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>All of them conspired together to come <i>and</i> fight against Jerusalem and to cause a disturbance in it.<p> <font size="1"><br><br></font><font color="#000000"><b><i>Discouragement Overcome</i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font>      <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/4-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>But we prayed to our God, and because of them we set up a guard against them day and night.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/4-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>Thus in Judah it was said,<br>            The strength of the burden bearers is failing,<br>            Yet there is much rubbish;<br>            And we ourselves are unable<br>            To rebuild the wall.<br><p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/4-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>Our enemies said, They will not know or see until we come among them, kill them and put a stop to the work. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/4-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>When the Jews who lived near them came and told us ten times, They will come up against us from every place where you may turn, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/4-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>then I stationed <i>men</i> in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, the exposed places, and I stationed the people in families with their swords, spears and bows. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/4-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>When I saw <i>their fear,</i> I rose and spoke to the nobles, the officials 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.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/4-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>When our enemies heard that it was known to us, and that God had frustrated their plan, then all of us returned to the wall, each one to his work. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/4-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>From that day on, half of my servants carried on the work while half of them held the spears, the shields, the bows and the breastplates; and the captains <i>were</i> behind the whole house of Judah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/4-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>Those who were rebuilding the wall and those who carried burdens took <i>their</i> load with one hand doing the work and the other holding a weapon. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/4-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>As for the builders, each <i>wore</i> his sword girded at his side as he built, while the trumpeter <i>stood</i> near me. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/4-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>I said to the nobles, the officials and the rest of the people, The work is great and extensive, and we are separated on the wall far from one another. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/4-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>At whatever place you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally to us there. Our God will fight for us.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/4-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>So we carried on the work with half of them holding spears from dawn until the stars appeared. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/4-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>At that time I also said to the people, Let each man with his servant spend the night within Jerusalem so that they may be a guard for us by night and a laborer by day. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/4-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>So neither I, my brothers, my servants, nor the men of the guard who followed me, none of us removed our clothes, each <i>took</i> his weapon <i>even to</i> the water.<p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">NASB 1995 Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. 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