Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
We were bondmen
Yet our god
To set up
General references
Bible References
We were bondmen
Nehemiah 9:36 Here we are today,
slaves in the land You gave our ancestors
so that they could enjoy its fruit and its goodness.
Here we are—slaves in it!
slaves in the land You gave our ancestors
so that they could enjoy its fruit and its goodness.
Here we are—slaves in it!
Yet our god
Psalm 106:45 remembered His covenant with them,
and relented according to the riches
of His faithful love.
and relented according to the riches
of His faithful love.
Psalm 136:23
He remembered us in our humiliation
His love is eternal.
His love is eternal.
Ezekiel 11:16
“Therefore say: This is what the Lord God says: Though I sent them far away among the nations and scattered them among the countries, yet for a little while I have been a sanctuary for them in the countries where they have gone.
In the sight
Ezra 1:1
In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, the word of the Lord spoken through Jeremiah was fulfilled. The Lord put it into the mind of King Cyrus to issue a proclamation throughout his entire kingdom and to put it in writing:
Ezra 6:1
King Darius gave the order, and they searched in the library of Babylon in the archives.
Ezra 7:6
—came up from Babylon. He was a scribe skilled in the law of Moses, which Yahweh, the God of Israel, had given. The king had granted him everything he requested because the hand of Yahweh his God was on him.
To set up
Ezra 6:14
So the Jewish elders continued successfully with the building under the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah son of Iddo. They finished the building according to the command of the God of Israel and the decrees of Cyrus, Darius, and King Artaxerxes of Persia.
Haggai 1:9
“You expected much, but then it amounted to little. When you brought the harvest to your house, I ruined it. Why?” This is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts. “Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.
Zechariah 4:6
So he answered me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by strength or by might, but by My Spirit,’ says the Lord of Hosts.
General references
Nehemiah 9:36 Here we are today,
slaves in the land You gave our ancestors
so that they could enjoy its fruit and its goodness.
Here we are—slaves in it!
slaves in the land You gave our ancestors
so that they could enjoy its fruit and its goodness.
Here we are—slaves in it!
Psalm 106:46 He caused them to be pitied
before all their captors.
before all their captors.
Isaiah 14:3
When the Lord gives you rest from your pain, torment, and the hard labor you were forced to do,