Parallel Verses

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.

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 mind to work.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
So built
בּנה 
Banah 
Usage: 376

we the wall
חומה 
Chowmah 
Usage: 133

and all the wall
חומה 
Chowmah 
Usage: 133

קשׁר 
Qashar 
Usage: 44

unto the half
חצי 
Chetsiy 
Usage: 125

עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

References

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Context Readings

Nehemiah Overcomes Opposition From Sanballat

5 and do not cover their iniquity, and, their sin before thee, let it not be blotted out, - for they have caused vexation before them who are building. 6 So we built the wall, and all the wall was finished unto the half thereof, - -and the people had a mind to work. 7 But it came to pass, when Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabians and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites heard that the repair of the walls of Jerusalem had gone up, that the breaches began to be stopped, that it angered them exceedingly;

Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:3

And yet further, because of my delighting in the house of my God, having a treasure of mine own in gold and silver, I have given for the house of my God, above and beyond all that I have prepared for the holy house:

1 Chronicles 29:14

And yet, who am, I, and who are my people, that we should be able to offer willingly like this? for, from thee, is the whole, and, out of thine own hand, have we given unto thee;

1 Chronicles 29:17-18

But I know, O my God, that, thou, art proving the heart, and, with uprightness, wilt thou be pleased, - I, in the uprightness of my heart, have willingly offered all these things, now, therefore, thy people who are found here, have I seen with joy, offering willingly unto thee.

2 Chronicles 29:36

And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, because God had established it for the people, - for, suddenly, had the thing come about.

Nehemiah 6:15

So the wall was finished, on the twenty-fifth of Elul, - in fifty-two days.

Psalm 110:3

Thy people, will freely offer themselves, in the day of thine army, - in the splendours of holiness, out of the womb of the dawn, To thee, shall spring forth the dew of thy youth.

2 Corinthians 8:16-17

Thanks, however, unto God! - who is putting the same earnestness in your behalf in the heart of Titus,

Philippians 2:13

For it is, God, who energiseth within you, both the desiring and the energising, in behalf of his good pleasure.

Hebrews 13:21

Fit you, by every good work, for the doing of his will, doing within us, that which is well-pleasing, before him through Jesus Christ: to whom be the glory, unto the ages of ages. Amen.

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