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.
The strength
Bearers
General references
Bible References
The strength
Numbers 13:31
And the men who went with him said, We shall not be able to go up against the people, for they are strong above us.
Numbers 32:9
And they will go up to the valley of Eshcol, and will see the land, and hinder the heart of the sons of Israel not to go to the land which Jehovah gave to them.
Psalm 11:1
To the overseer; of David. In Jehovah I put my trust: how will ye say to my soul, Wander ye to your mountain, little bird?
Haggai 1:2
Thus said Jehovah of armies, saying, This people said the time was not come, the time of the house of Jehovah to be built
Bearers
2 Chronicles 2:18
And he will make from them seventy thousand to carry, and eighty thousand hewing in the mountain, and three thousand six hundred superintending to cause the people to work.
Ezekiel 29:18
Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre: every head being made bald, and every shoulder made smooth: and wages were not to him and to his army from Tyre for the service that he served against her.
General references
Psalm 102:14
For thy servants delighted in her stones, and they will compassionate her dust