King James Version
Nehemiah 4:8 in the King James Version says “And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it. to hinder: Heb. to make an ...” — study this verse from Nehemiah chapter 4 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it. to hinder: Heb. to make an error to it”
Nehemiah 4:8 · KJV
So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.
But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up , and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth, were made up: Heb. ascended
And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it. to hinder: Heb. to make an error to it
Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“And conspired”
H7194to tie, physically (gird, confine, compact) or mentally (in love, league)
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“against Jerusalem”
H3389jerushalaim or jerushalem, the capital city of palestine
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