Nehemiah 4:9 “So we prayed to our God and posted a guard against them day and night.”

Nehemiah 4:9

So we prayed to our God and posted a guard against them day and night.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

The we prayed vnto our God, and set watchmen by them, day and night, because of them.

Darby Translation

Then we prayed to our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.

Young's Literal Translation

And we pray unto our God, and appoint a watch against them, by day and by night, because of them.

Bible in Basic English

But we made our prayer to God, and had men on watch against them day and night because of them.

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Cross references

“Nevertheless”

Psalm 50:15 Acts 4:24–30 Genesis 32:28 2 Kings 19:14–19 Nehemiah 4:11 Psalm 55:16–22

Psalm 50:15 · BSB

Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”

Acts 4:24–30 · BSB

When the believers heard this, they lifted up their voices to God with one accord. “Sovereign Lord,” they said, “You made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them.

Genesis 32:28 · BSB

Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.”

2 Kings 19:14–19 · BSB

So Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers, read it, and went up to the house of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD.

Nehemiah 4:11 · BSB

And our enemies said, “Before they know or see a thing, we will come into their midst, kill them, and put an end to the work.”

Psalm 55:16–22 · BSB

But I call to God, and the LORD saves me.

“set a watch”

1 Peter 5:8 Matthew 26:41 Luke 21:36

1 Peter 5:8 · BSB

Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

Matthew 26:41 · BSB

“Watch and pray so that you will not enter into temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak.”

Luke 21:36 · BSB

So keep watch at all times, and pray that you may have the strength to escape all that is about to happen and to stand before the Son of Man.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

8and all of them conspired to come and fight against Jerusalem and create a hindrance.

10Meanwhile, the people of Judah said: “The strength of the laborer fails, and there is so much rubble that we will never be able to rebuild the wall.”

Read Nehemiah 4