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Nehemiah 2:17

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Then I said to them, “You see the bad situation that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come, let’s build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we won’t be disgraced.”

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Nehemiah 2:17 in other translations

Then said I unto them, Ye see the evil case that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.

Nehemiah 2:17 · American Standard Version

Nehemiah 2:17 in context

  1. 15Then I went up in the night by the brook, and inspected the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.
  2. 16The rulers didn’t know where I went, or what I did. I had not as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest who did the work.
  3. 17Then I said to them, “You see the bad situation that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come, let’s build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we won’t be disgraced.”
  4. 18I told them of the hand of my God which was good on me, as also of the king’s words that he had spoken to me.
    They said, “Let’s rise up and build.” So they strengthened their hands for the good work.
  5. 19But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite servant, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us, and despised us, and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?”