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New Living Translation

Nehemiah 4:8

They all made plans to come and fight against Jerusalem and throw us into confusion.

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 Life Bible
And all of them made plans together to come and fight against Jerusalem and cause trouble in it.
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 But when Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabs, Ammonites, and Ashdodites heard that the work was going ahead and that the gaps in the wall of Jerusalem were being repaired, they were furious. 8 They all made plans to come and fight against Jerusalem and throw us into confusion. 9 But we prayed to our God and guarded the city day and night to protect ourselves. 10 Then the people of Judah began to complain, "The workers are getting tired, and there is so much rubble to be moved. We will never be able to build the wall by ourselves." 11 Meanwhile, our enemies were saying, "Before they know what's happening, we will swoop down on them and kill them and end their work." 12 The Jews who lived near the enemy came and told us again and again, "They will come from all directions and attack us!" 13 So I placed armed guards behind the lowest parts of the wall in the exposed areas. I stationed the people to stand guard by families, armed with swords, spears, and bows. 14 Then as I looked over the situation, I called together the nobles and the rest of the people and said to them, "Don't be afraid of the enemy! Remember the Lord, who is great and glorious, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes!" 15 When our enemies heard that we knew of their plans and that God had frustrated them, we all returned to our work on the wall.

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
When it was time for the harvest, Cain presented some of his crops as a gift to the Lord .
Genesis 4:6
"Why are you so angry?" the Lord asked Cain. "Why do you look so dejected?
Genesis 4:9
Afterward the Lord asked Cain, "Where is your brother? Where is Abel?" "I don't know," Cain responded. "Am I my brother's guardian?"
Genesis 4:10
But the Lord said, "What have you done? Listen! Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground!
Genesis 4:12
No longer will the ground yield good crops for you, no matter how hard you work! From now on you will be a homeless wanderer on the earth."
Genesis 4:15
The Lord replied, "No, for I will give a sevenfold punishment to anyone who kills you." Then the Lord put a mark on Cain to warn anyone who might try to kill him.
Genesis 4:24
If someone who kills Cain is punished seven times, then the one who kills me will be punished seventy-seven times!"
Genesis 4:26
When Seth grew up, he had a son and named him Enosh. At that time people first began to worship the Lord by name.
2 Samuel 3:27
When Abner arrived back at Hebron, Joab took him aside at the gateway as if to speak with him privately. But then he stabbed Abner in the stomach and killed him in revenge for killing his brother Asahel.
2 Samuel 14:6
My two sons had a fight out in the field. And since no one was there to stop it, one of them was killed.

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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