Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.

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Bible References

Ye see

Lamentations 2:2
The Lord has swallowed up; He has not spared
All the habitations of Jacob.
In His wrath He has thrown down
The strongholds of the daughter of Judah;
He has brought them down to the ground;
He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.
Lamentations 3:51
My eyes bring pain to my soul
Because of all the daughters of my city.

Come

Ezra 5:1
When the prophets, Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, who was over them,
Ezra 10:2
Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, said to Ezra, “We have been unfaithful to our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land; yet now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.
Isaiah 35:3
Encourage the exhausted, and strengthen the feeble.

A reproach

Nehemiah 1:3
They said to me, “The remnant there in the province who survived the captivity are in great distress and reproach, and the wall of Jerusalem is broken down and its gates are burned with fire.”
1 Samuel 11:2
But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, “I will make it with you on this condition, that I will gouge out the right eye of every one of you, thus I will make it a reproach on all Israel.”
Psalm 44:13
You make us a reproach to our neighbors,
A scoffing and a derision to those around us.
Psalm 79:4
We have become a reproach to our neighbors,
A scoffing and derision to those around us.
Psalm 89:50
Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants;
How I bear in my bosom the reproach of all the many peoples,
Jeremiah 24:9
I will make them a terror and an evil for all the kingdoms of the earth, as a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse in all places where I will scatter them.
Lamentations 3:45
You have made us mere offscouring and refuse
In the midst of the peoples.
Ezekiel 5:14
Moreover, I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations which surround you, in the sight of all who pass by.
Ezekiel 22:4
You have become guilty by the blood which you have shed, and defiled by your idols which you have made. Thus you have brought your day near and have come to your years; therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations and a mocking to all the lands.

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Psalm 102:14
Surely Your servants find pleasure in her stones
And feel pity for her dust.