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Nehemiah 4:9

American Standard Version

But we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.

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Nehemiah 4:9 in other translations

But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night because of them.

Nehemiah 4:9 · World English Bible

Nehemiah 4:9 in context

  1. 7But 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 were very wroth;
  2. 8and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.
  3. 9But we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
  4. 10And 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.
  5. 11And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come into the midst of them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease.