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Nehemiah 4:8

And all of them made plans together to come and fight against Jerusalem and cause trouble in it.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ammonites;   Ashdod;   Character;   Tobiah;   Thompson Chain Reference - Co-Operation;   Helps-Hindrances;   Hindrances;   Opposers;   Unity-Strife;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Ammonites, the;   Character of the Wicked;   Jerusalem;   Samaria, Modern;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Samaritans;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ammon;   Prayer;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Sanballat;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ashdod;   Nehemiah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ophel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Nehemiah;   Sanhedrin;   Stone;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jerusalem;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Baean;   Zechariah, Book of;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Ammonites;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and throw it into confusion.
Hebrew Names Version
and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Yerushalayim, and to cause confusion therein.
King James Version
And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.
English Standard Version
And they all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and to cause confusion in it.
New Century Version
So they all made plans to come to Jerusalem and fight and stir up trouble.
New English Translation
All of them conspired together to move with armed forces against Jerusalem and to create a disturbance in it.
Amplified Bible
They all conspired together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to cause a disturbance in it.
New American Standard Bible
So all of them conspired together to come to fight against Jerusalem and to cause confusion in it.
World English Bible
and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And conspired all together to come & to fight against Ierusalem, and to hinder them.
Legacy Standard Bible
All of them joined together to come and fight against Jerusalem and to cause a disturbance in it.
Berean Standard Bible
and all of them conspired to come and fight against Jerusalem and create a hindrance.
Contemporary English Version
and decided to stir up trouble, and to fight against the people of Jerusalem.
Complete Jewish Bible
After inspecting them, I stood up and addressed the nobles, leaders and the rest of the people: "Don't be afraid of them! Remember Adonai, who is great and fearful; and fight for your brothers, sons, daughters, wives and homes."
Darby Translation
and conspired all of them together to come to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.
Easy-to-Read Version
So all these men got together and made plans against Jerusalem. They planned to stir up trouble against Jerusalem. They planned to come and fight against the city.
George Lamsa Translation
And they all conspired together to come to fight against Jerusalem and to hinder the people from the work.
Good News Translation
So they all plotted together to come and attack Jerusalem and create confusion,
Lexham English Bible
So all of them plotted together to come fight against Jerusalem and to make trouble for it.
Literal Translation
And all of them conspired together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and do harm to it.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and cospyred all together, to come and fight against Ierusalem, & to make an hinderaunce therin.
American Standard Version
and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.
Bible in Basic English
And they made designs, all of them together, to come and make an attack on Jerusalem, causing trouble there.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And conspired all together to come and fight against Hierusalem, and to make an hinderaunce therin.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people: 'Be not ye afraid of them; remember the Lord, who is great and awful, and fight for your brethren, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your houses.'
King James Version (1611)
And conspired all of them together, to come and to fight against Ierusalem, and to hinder it.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And all of them assembled together, to come to fight against Jerusalem, and to destroy it utterly.
English Revised Version
and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And alle weren gaderid togidere to come and fiyte ayens Jerusalem, and to caste tresouns.
Update Bible Version
and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion in it.
Webster's Bible Translation
And conspired all of them together to come [and] to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.
New King James Version
and all of them conspired together to come and attack Jerusalem and create confusion.
New Living Translation
They all made plans to come and fight against Jerusalem and throw us into confusion.
New Revised Standard
and all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and to cause confusion in it.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and they conspired, all of them together, to come, to fight against Jerusalem, - and to cause it harm;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And they all assembled themselves together, to come, and to fight against Jerusalem, and to prepare ambushes.
Revised Standard Version
and they all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and to cause confusion in it.
Young's Literal Translation
and they conspire, all of them together, to come in to fight against Jerusalem, and to do to it injury.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
All of them conspired together to come and fight against Jerusalem and to cause a disturbance in it.

Contextual Overview

7 When Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites and the Ashdodites heard that the work of building the walls of Jerusalem went on, and that the broken places began to be closed, they were very angry. 8 And all of them made plans together to come and fight against Jerusalem and cause trouble in it. 9 But we prayed to our God because of them. And we had men watching for them day and night. 10 So in Judah it was said, "Those who carry the loads are becoming weaker, and there is much dust. We are not able to work on the wall." 11 Those who hated us said, "They will not know it or see us until we are among them, kill them, and stop the work." 12 When the Jews who lived by them came, they told us ten times, "They will come up against us from all the places where they live." 13 So I put men in the lowest parts of the places behind the wall, in the open places. I put the people in place by their families with their swords, spears and bows. 14 When I saw their fear, I got up and said to the rulers and leaders and the rest of the people, "Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord Who is great and honored with fear. And fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your houses." 15 When those who hated us heard that it was known to us, and that God had brought trouble to their plan, then all of us returned to the wall. Each one returned to his work.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

all: Psalms 2:1-3, Psalms 83:3-11, Isaiah 8:9, Isaiah 8:10, Acts 23:12, Acts 23:13

hinder it: Heb. make an error to it, Jeremiah 20:10

Reciprocal: Ezra 4:4 - troubled Jeremiah 41:10 - to the Daniel 9:25 - wall 1 Corinthians 9:12 - hinder

Cross-References

Genesis 4:3
The day came when Cain brought a gift of the fruit of the ground to the Lord.
Genesis 4:6
Then the Lord said to Cain, "Why are you angry? And why are you looking down?
Genesis 4:9
Then the Lord said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" And he said, "I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?"
Genesis 4:10
The Lord said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to Me from the ground.
Genesis 4:12
When you work the ground, it will no longer give its strength to you. You will always travel from place to place on the earth."
Genesis 4:15
So the Lord said to him, "Whoever kills Cain will be punished by Me seven times worse." And the Lord put a mark on Cain so that any one who found him would not kill him.
Genesis 4:24
If those who hurt Cain are punished seven times worse, then those who hurt Lamech will be punished seventy-seven times worse."
Genesis 4:26
A son was born to Seth also, and he gave him the name Enosh. Then men began to call upon the name of the Lord.
2 Samuel 3:27
When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the center of the gate to speak with him alone. There Joab hit him in the stomach and killed him because of the blood of his brother Asahel.
2 Samuel 14:6
Your woman servant had two sons. But they fought together in the field and there was no one to pull them apart. So one hit the other and killed him.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And conspired all of them together,.... All the above men and people entered into a confederacy and combination:

to come and to fight against Jerusalem; to bring an army with them, and by force cause the Jews to desist; the Jews e pretend they came to war, and brought with them an army of 180,000 men, which is not probable:

and to hinder it; the building of the walls of it; or "to make a wandering for him" f; for Nehemiah, or the people, or both, to, cause them to stray from their work, to frighten them from it, that they might become like men at their wits end, not knowing what to do, where to turn themselves, or what course to steer, but to wander about as persons out of their senses; so Aben Ezra. De Dieu joins this clause to the next verse, to cause everyone of them to wander, we prayed, c.

e Pirke Eliezer, c. 38. f לעשות לו תועה "ad faciendum ei errorem", Montanus "ei aberrationem", Genevenses; "vagationem et palationem", alii apud De Dieu.


 
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