Nehemiah 4:9
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“So we prayed to our God and posted a guard against them day and night.”
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“So we prayed to our God and posted a guard against them day and night.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.”
King James Version · Public Domain“But we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And we pray unto our God, and appoint a watch against them, by day and by night, because of them.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Nehemiah 4:9 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 32:9Then Jacob declared, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, the LORD who told me, ‘Go back to your country and to your kindred, and I will make you prosper,’
- Genesis 32:28Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.”
- 2 Kings 19:14So Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers, read it, and went up to the house of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD.
- Nehemiah 4:11And our enemies said, “Before they know or see a thing, we will come into their midst, kill them, and put an end to the work.”
- Job 5:12He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.
- Psalms 33:10The LORD frustrates the plans of the nations; He thwarts the devices of the peoples.
- Psalms 50:15Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”
- Psalms 55:16But I call to God, and the LORD saves me.
- Proverbs 22:12The LORD’s eyes keep watch over knowledge, but He frustrates the words of the faithless.
- Matthew 26:41“Watch and pray so that you will not enter into temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak.”
- Luke 6:11But the scribes and Pharisees were filled with rage and began to discuss with one another what they might do to Jesus.
- Luke 21:36So keep watch at all times, and pray that you may have the strength to escape all that is about to happen and to stand before the Son of Man.”
- Acts 4:24When the believers heard this, they lifted up their voices to God with one accord. “Sovereign Lord,” they said, “You made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them.
- 1 Peter 5:8Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).