Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.

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The strength

Numbers 13:31
But the men who went up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.
Numbers 32:9
For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the sons of Israel, that they should not go into the land which LORD had given them.
Psalm 11:1
In LORD I take refuge. How will ye say to my soul, Flee [as] a bird to your mountain.
Haggai 1:2
Thus speaks LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, It is not the time [for us] to come, the time for LORD's house to be built.

Bearers

2 Chronicles 2:18
And he set seventy thousand of them to bear burdens, and eighty thousand who were hewers in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people to work.
Ezekiel 29:18
Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre. Every head was made bald, and every shoulder was worn, yet he had no wages, nor his army, from Tyre, for the service that he had serv

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Psalm 102:14
For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity upon her dust.