Nehemiah 1:3
And they said to me, The remnant who are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach. Also the wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and the gates of it are burned with fire.
Nehemiah 2:17
Then I said to them, Ye see the evil condition that we are in, how Jerusalem lays waste, and the gates of it are burned with fire. Come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem that we be no more a reproach.
2 Kings 25:10
And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were [with] the captain of the guard, broke down the walls of Jerusalem round about.
Nehemiah 2:3
And I said to the king, Let the king live forever. Why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchers, lays waste, and the gates of it are consumed with fire?
Nehemiah 2:13
And I went out by night by the valley gate, even toward the jackal's well and to the dung gate, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates of it were consumed with fire.
Nehemiah 7:6
These are the sons of the province who went up out of the captivity of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and who returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, everyone to his city
1 Kings 9:7
then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them. And this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight. And Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
Ezra 2:1
Now these are the sons of the province who went up out of the captivity of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away to Babylon, and who returned to Jerusalem and Judah, every man to
Ezra 5:8
Be it known to the king, that we went into the province of Judah to the house of the great God, which is built with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls. And this work goes on with diligence and prospers in their hands.
Nehemiah 9:36-37
Behold, we are servants this day, and as for the land that thou gave to our fathers to eat the fruit of it and the good of it, behold, we are servants in it.
Nehemiah 11:3
Now these are the chiefs of the province who dwelt in Jerusalem. But in the cities of Judah everyone dwells in his possession in their cities, [namely], Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the Nethinim, and the sons of Solomo
Esther 1:1
Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus (this is Ahasuerus who reigned from India even to Ethiopia over a hundred and twenty-seven provinces),
Psalm 44:11-14
Thou have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.
Psalm 79:4
We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are round about us.
Psalm 137:1-3
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept when we remembered Zion.
Isaiah 5:5
And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away the hedge of it, and it shall be eaten up. I will break down the wall of it, and it shall be trodden down.
Isaiah 32:9-14
Rise up, ye women who are at ease. Hear my voice, ye careless daughters. Give ear to my speech.
Isaiah 43:28
Therefore I will profane the rulers of the sanctuary, and I will make Jacob a curse, and Israel a reviling.
Isaiah 64:10-11
Thy holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
Jeremiah 5:10
Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy, but make not a full end. Take away her branches, for they are not LORD's.
Jeremiah 24:9
I will even give them up to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.
Jeremiah 29:18
And I will pursue after them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an execration, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and
Jeremiah 39:8
And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 42:18
For thus says LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: As my anger and my wrath has been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall my wrath be poured forth upon you when ye shall enter into Egypt. And ye shall be an execrat
Jeremiah 44:8-12
in that ye provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where ye have gone to sojourn, that ye may be cut off, and that ye may be a curse and a reproach among all the nations
Jeremiah 52:14
And all the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls of Jerusalem round about.
Lamentations 3:61
Thou have heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their devices against me,
Lamentations 5:1
Remember, O LORD, what has come upon us. Behold, and see our reproach.