Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
So we built the wall, and all the wall was joined together to half [the height] of it, for the people had a mind to work.
New American Standard Bible
So we built the wall and the whole wall was joined together to half its height, for the people had a
King James Version
So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.
Holman Bible
So we rebuilt the wall until the entire wall was joined together up to half its height, for the people had the will to keep working.
International Standard Version
So we rebuilt the wall, completing it halfway up, because the people were committed to working.
American Standard Version
So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto half the height thereof: for the people had a mind to work.
Amplified
So we built the wall and the entire wall was joined together to half its height, for the people had a heart to work.
Bible in Basic English
So we went on building the wall; and all the wall was joined together half-way up: for the people were working hard.
Darby Translation
But we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to the half thereof; for the people had a mind to work.
Julia Smith Translation
And we shall build the wall; and all the wall will be completed even to its half: and a heart will be to the people to work.
King James 2000
So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.
Lexham Expanded Bible
So we rebuilt the wall, and all of the wall was joined up to half [its height]. For the people had a heart to do [it].
Modern King James verseion
So we built the wall, and all the wall was joined together to the half of it. For the people had a mind to work.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Yet builded we the wall, and joined it whole together, unto the half height. And the people were well minded to labour.
NET Bible
So we rebuilt the wall, and the entire wall was joined together up to half its height. The people were enthusiastic in their work.
New Heart English Bible
So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half its height: for the people had a mind to work.
The Emphasized Bible
So we built the wall, and all the wall was finished unto the half thereof, - -and the people had a mind to work.
Webster
So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to the half of it, for the people had a mind to work.
World English Bible
So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half [the height] of it: for the people had a mind to work.
Youngs Literal Translation
And we build the wall, and all the wall is joined -- unto its half, and the people have a heart to work.
Themes
Diligence » Figurative » Nehemiah and his helpers
Liberality » Instances of » Jews after the captivity
modern Samaria » Inhabitants of » Opposed the jews after their return from captivity
Interlinear
Banah
Leb
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Nehemiah 4:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Nehemiah Overcomes Opposition From Sanballat
5 and do not cover their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee, for they have provoked [thee] to anger before the builders. 6 So we built the wall, and all the wall was joined together to half [the height] of it, for the people had a mind to work. 7 But it came to pass that, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, [and] that the breaches began to be stopped, then they
Phrases
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:3
Moreover also, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, seeing that I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, I give it to the house of my God over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,
1 Chronicles 29:14
But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? For all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.
1 Chronicles 29:17-18
I know also, my God, that thou try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. And now I have seen with joy thy people, who are present here, off
2 Chronicles 29:36
And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, because of that which God had prepared for the people; for the thing was done suddenly.
Nehemiah 6:15
So the wall was finished in the twenty-fifth [day] of [the month] Elul, in fifty-two days.
Psalm 110:3
Thy people offer themselves willingly in the day of thy power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning thou have the dew of thy youth.
2 Corinthians 8:16-17
But thanks to God who gives the same eagerness for you in the heart of Titus.
Philippians 2:13
For it is God who works in you both to desire and to work for approval.
Hebrews 13:21
may he make you fully qualified in every good work in order to do his will, doing in you what is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory into the ages of the ages. Truly.