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 who went up with him said, "We aren't 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 children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which Yahweh had given them.
Psalm 11:1
In Yahweh, I take refuge. How can you say to my soul, "Flee as a bird to your mountain!"
Haggai 1:2
"This is what Yahweh of Armies says: These people say, 'The time hasn't yet come, the time for Yahweh's house to be built.'"
Bearers
2 Chronicles 2:18
He set seventy thousand of them to bear burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred overseers to set the people at work.
Ezekiel 29:18
Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was worn; yet had he no wages, nor his army, from Tyre, for the service that he had served against it.
General references
Psalm 102:14
For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity on her dust.