Nehemiah 4:9
Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
Context
This verse from Nehemiah Chapter 4 connects to 10 cross-references. When Sanballat and Tobiah mock and threaten, Nehemiah prays and posts armed guards; the builders work with one hand while holding a weapon in the other. The enemy plot to attack, so Nehemiah sets families at the lowest points of …
Other Translations
But we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
And we pray unto our God, and appoint a watch against them, by day and by night, because of them.
But we made our prayer to God, and had men on watch against them day and night because of them.
Cross References
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come …
And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all …
And they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus.
By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy …
And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art …
Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
As for me, I will call upon God; and the Lord shall save me.
And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.