World English Bible
Nehemiah 4:9
“But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.”
Verse in context — Nehemiah 4
But it happened that when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, 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 angry;
and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.
But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
Judah said, "The strength of the bearers of burdens is fading, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.
Our adversaries said, "They shall not know, neither see, until we come into the midst of them, and kill them, and cause the work to cease.
About Nehemiah
Rebuilding Jerusalem’s walls and restoring the community’s faith.
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