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
But the men that went up with him said, "We be not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we."
Numbers 32:9
And they went up even unto the river of Eshcol and saw the land, and discouraged the hearts of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given them.
Psalm 11:1
{To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye then to my soul, that she should flee as a bird unto the hill?
Haggai 1:2
"Thus speaketh the LORD of Hosts, and sayeth, 'This people doth say: The time is not yet come to build up the LORD's house.'"
Bearers
2 Chronicles 2:18
And he set eighty thousand of them to bear burdens, and eighty thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to courage and to set the people a work.
Ezekiel 29:18
"O thou son of man, Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon hath made his host, with great travail and labour to come before Tyre: that every head may be bald, and every shoulder bare. Yet hath Tyre given neither him nor his host any reward, for the great travail that he hath taken there.
General references
Psalm 102:14
And why? Thy servants think upon her stones, and it pitieth them to see her in the dust.