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Will the Gentiles let them alone? will they sacrifice and make an end in a day? are they able to raise stones out of the heaps of the rubbish, which are burnt? <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Tobias also the Ammonite who was by him said : Let them build: if a fox go up, he will leap over their stone wall. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Hear thou our God, for we are despised: turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them to be despised in a land of captivity. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thy face, because they have mocked thy builders. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>So we built the wall, and joined it all together unto the half thereof: and the heart of the people was excited to work. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And it came to pass, when Sanaballat, and Tobias, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Azotians heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and the breaches began to be closed, that they were exceedingly angry. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And they all assembled themselves together, to come, and to fight against Jerusalem, and to prepare ambushes. </p> <p class="hdg">Discouragement Overcome</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And we prayed to our God, and set watchmen upon the wall day and night against them. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And Juda said: The strength of the bearer of burdens is decayed, and the rubbish is very much, and we shall not be able to build the wall. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And our enemies said: Let them not know, nor understand, till we come in the midst of them, and kill them, and cause the work to cease. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And it came to pass, that when the Jews that dwelt by them came and told us ten times, out of all the places from whence they came to us, <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>I set the people in the place behind the wall round about in order, with their swords, and spears, and bows. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And I looked and rose up: and I said to the chief men and the magistrates, and to the rest of the common people: be not afraid of them. Remember the Lord who is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, and your wives, and your houses. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that the thing had been told us, that God defeated their counsel. And we returned all of us to the walls, every man to his work. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And it came to pass from that day forward, that half of their young men did the work, and half were ready for to fight, with spears, and shields, and bows, and coats of mail, and the rulers were behind them in all the house of Juda. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Of them that built on the wall and that carried burdens, and that laded: with one of his hands he did the work, and with the other he held a sword. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For every one of the builders was girded with a sword about his reins. And they built, and sounded with a trumpet by me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And I said to the nobles, and to the magistrates, and to the rest of the common people: The work is great and wide, and we are separated on the wall one far from another: <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>In what place soever you shall hear the sound of the trumpet, run all thither unto us: our God will fight for us. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And let us do the work: and let one half of us hold our spears from the rising of the morning, till the stars appear. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/4-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>At that time also I said to the people: Let every one with his servant stay in the midst of Jerusalem, and let us take our turns in the night, and by day, to work. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/4-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Now I and my brethren, and my servants, and the watchmen that followed me, did not put off our clothes: only every man stripped himself when he was to be washed. </p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Douay-Rheims Bible<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../nehemiah/3.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Nehemiah 3"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Nehemiah 3" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../nehemiah/5.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Nehemiah 5"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Nehemiah 5" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/nehemiah/4-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframe120.htm" width="122" height="602" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>