Nehemiah 2:17

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.

Ye see

Lamentations 2:2

Lamentations 3:51

Come

Ezra 5:1

Ezra 10:2

Isaiah 35:3

A reproach

General references

Psalm 102:14

Bible References

Ye see

The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: He hath thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He hath brought them down to the ground; he hath profaned the kingdom and the princes thereof.

Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.

Come

Now the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied unto the Jews that were in Judah and Jerusalem; in the name of the God of Israel prophesied they unto them.

And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land: yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing.

Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.

A reproach

And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.

And Nahash the Ammonite said unto them, On this condition will I make it with you, that all your right eyes be put out; and I will lay it for a reproach upon all Israel.

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and a derision to them that are round about us.

We are become a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and derision to them that are round about us.

Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; How I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty peoples,

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 whither I shall drive them.

Thou hast made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.

Moreover I will make thee a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.

Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed, and art defiled in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the nations, and a mocking to all the countries.

General references

For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, And have pity upon her dust.