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Nehemiah 1

Neh. 1:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And they said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
unto me, The remnant
sha'ar (Hebrew #7604)
properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant
KJV usage: leave, (be) left, let, remain, remnant, reserve, the rest.
Pronounce: shaw-ar'
Origin: a primitive root
that are left
sha'ar (Hebrew #7604)
properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant
KJV usage: leave, (be) left, let, remain, remnant, reserve, the rest.
Pronounce: shaw-ar'
Origin: a primitive root
of the captivity
shbiy (Hebrew #7628)
exiled; captured; as noun, exile (abstractly or concretely and collectively); by extension, booty
KJV usage: captive(-ity), prisoners, X take away, that was taken.
Pronounce: sheb-ee'
Origin: from 7618
there in the province
mdiynah (Hebrew #4082)
properly, a judgeship, i.e. jurisdiction; by implication, a district (as ruled by a judge); generally, a region
KJV usage: (X every) province.
Pronounce: med-ee-naw'
Origin: from 1777
areg in great
gadowl (Hebrew #1419)
from 1431; great (in any sense); hence, older; also insolent
KJV usage: + aloud, elder(-est), + exceeding(-ly), + far, (man of) great (man, matter, thing,-er,-ness), high, long, loud, mighty, more, much, noble, proud thing, X sore, (X ) very.
Pronounce: gaw-dole'
Origin: or (shortened) gadol {gaw-dole'}
affliction
ra` (Hebrew #7451)
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
KJV usage: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease(-ure), distress, evil((- favouredness), man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
Pronounce: rah
Origin: from 7489
and reproach
cherpah (Hebrew #2781)
contumely, disgrace, the pudenda
KJV usage: rebuke, reproach(-fully), shame.
Pronounce: kher-paw'
Origin: from 2778
: the wall
chowmah (Hebrew #2346)
a wall of protection
KJV usage: wall, walled.
Pronounce: kho-maw'
Origin: feminine active participle of an unused root apparently meaning to join
of Jerusalem
Yruwshalaim (Hebrew #3389)
a dual (in allusion to its two main hills (the true pointing, at least of the former reading, seems to be that of 3390)); probably from (the passive participle of) 3384 and 7999; founded peaceful; Jerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of Palestine
KJV usage: Jerusalem.
Pronounce: yer-oo-shaw-lah'-im
Origin: rarely Yruwshalayim {yer-oo- shaw-lah'-yim}
also is brokenh down
parats (Hebrew #6555)
to break out (in many applications, direct and indirect, literal and figurative)
KJV usage: X abroad, (make a) breach, break (away, down, -er, forth, in, up), burst out, come (spread) abroad, compel, disperse, grow, increase, open, press, scatter, urge.
Pronounce: paw-rats'
Origin: a primitive root
, and the gates
sha`ar (Hebrew #8179)
an opening, i.e. door or gate
KJV usage: city, door, gate, port (X -er).
Pronounce: shah'-ar
Origin: from 8176 in its original sense
thereof are burned
yatsath (Hebrew #3341)
to burn or set on fire; figuratively, to desolate
KJV usage: burn (up), be desolate, set (on) fire ((fire)), kindle.
Pronounce: yaw-tsath'
Origin: a primitive root
with fire
'esh (Hebrew #784)
fire (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: burning, fiery, fire, flaming, hot.
Pronounce: aysh
Origin: a primitive word
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Psa. 137:1‑3• 1By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down; yea, we wept when we remembered Zion.
 2We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
 3For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that made us wail required mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. (Psa. 137:1‑3)
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Lam. 1:7• 7In the days of her affliction and of her wanderings, since her people fell into the hand of an adversary, and none did help her, Jerusalem remembereth all her precious things which she had in the days of old: the adversaries have seen her, they mock at her ruin. (Lam. 1:7)
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Lam. 3:61• 61Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, all their imaginations against me; (Lam. 3:61)
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Lam. 5:1• 1Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us; consider, and see our reproach. (Lam. 5:1)
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2 Kings 25:10• 10And all the army of the Chaldeans that were with the captain of the body-guard broke down the walls of Jerusalem round about. (2 Kings 25:10)
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Isa. 64:10‑11• 10Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
 11Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burnt up with fire, and all our precious things are laid waste. (Isa. 64:10‑11)

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Ministry on This Verse

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the province.
Neh. 7:6• 6These are the children of the province that went up out of the captivity of those that had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and who came again to Jerusalem and to Judah, every one to his city; (Neh. 7:6)
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Neh. 11:3• 3And these are the chiefs of the province that dwelt in Jerusalem; but in the cities of Judah dwelt every one in his possession in their cities, Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants. (Neh. 11:3)
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Ezra 2:1• 1And these are the children of the province, that went up out of the captivity of those that had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away to Babylon, and who came again to Jerusalem and to Judah, every one to his city, (Ezra 2:1)
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Ezra 5:8• 8Be it known to the king that we went into the province of Judah, to the house of the great God, which is being built with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls, and this work is being carried on with diligence, and prospers in their hand. (Ezra 5:8)
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Esther 1:1• 1And it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus (that is, the Ahasuerus that reigned from India even to Ethiopia, over a hundred and twenty-seven provinces), (Esther 1:1)
in great.
Neh. 9:36‑37• 36Behold, we are servants this day, and the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are bondmen in it.
 37And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: and they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure; and we are in great distress. (Neh. 9:36‑37)
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Psa. 44:11‑14• 11Thou hast given us over like sheep appointed for meat, and hast scattered us among the nations;
 12Thou hast sold thy people for nought, and hast not increased thy wealth by their price;
 13Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a mockery and a derision for them that are round about us;
 14Thou makest us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples. (Psa. 44:11‑14)
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Psa. 137:1‑3• 1By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down; yea, we wept when we remembered Zion.
 2We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
 3For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that made us wail required mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. (Psa. 137:1‑3)
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Isa. 32:9‑14• 9Rise up, ye women that are at ease, hear my voice; ye careless daughters, give ear unto my speech.
 10In a year and some days shall ye be troubled, ye careless women; for the vintage shall fail, the ingathering shall not come.
 11Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones; strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth on your loins!
 12They shall smite on the breasts in lamentation for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vineyards.
 13Upon the land of my people shall come up thistles and briars, yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
 14For the palace shall be deserted, the multitude of the city shall be forsaken; hill and watchtower shall be caves for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks; (Isa. 32:9‑14)
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Lam. 1:7• 7In the days of her affliction and of her wanderings, since her people fell into the hand of an adversary, and none did help her, Jerusalem remembereth all her precious things which she had in the days of old: the adversaries have seen her, they mock at her ruin. (Lam. 1:7)
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Lam. 3:61• 61Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, all their imaginations against me; (Lam. 3:61)
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Lam. 5:1• 1Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us; consider, and see our reproach. (Lam. 5:1)
reproach.
1 Kings 9:7• 7then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and the house, which I have hallowed to my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a by word among all peoples; (1 Kings 9:7)
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Psa. 79:4• 4We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a mockery and a derision to them that are round about us. (Psa. 79:4)
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Isa. 43:28• 28And I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the ban, and Israel to reproaches. (Isa. 43:28)
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Jer. 24:9• 9And I will give them over to be driven hither and thither unto all the kingdoms of the earth for evil, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them; (Jer. 24:9)
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Jer. 29:18• 18And I will pursue them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will give them over to be driven hither and thither into all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an execration, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I will drive them: (Jer. 29:18)
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Jer. 42:18• 18For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: As mine anger and my fury have been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt; and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach, and ye shall see this place no more. (Jer. 42:18)
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Jer. 44:8‑12• 8provoking me to anger with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye are come to sojourn, that ye should be cut off, and that ye should be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
 9Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
 10They are not humbled unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes which I set before you and before your fathers.
 11Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and to cut off all Judah.
 12And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to enter into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed: in the land of Egypt shall they fall; they shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, from the least even unto the greatest; they shall die by the sword and by the famine, and they shall be an execration, an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach. (Jer. 44:8‑12)
the wall.
Neh. 2:17• 17And I said to them, Ye see the distress that we are in, that Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach. (Neh. 2:17)
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2 Kings 25:10• 10And all the army of the Chaldeans that were with the captain of the body-guard broke down the walls of Jerusalem round about. (2 Kings 25:10)
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Isa. 5:5• 5And now, let me tell you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trodden under foot; (Isa. 5:5)
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Isa. 64:10‑11• 10Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
 11Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burnt up with fire, and all our precious things are laid waste. (Isa. 64:10‑11)
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Jer. 5:10• 10Go up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end; take away her battlements, for they are not Jehovah's. (Jer. 5:10)
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Jer. 39:8• 8And the Chaldeans burned the king's house and the houses of the people with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem. (Jer. 39:8)
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Jer. 52:14• 14And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the body-guard, broke down all the walls of Jerusalem round about. (Jer. 52:14)
• The walls of an ancient city provided protection, separating the inhabitants from the enemies without. The city gates allowed for controlled access. All who came and went were subjected to the appraisal of the gate keeper. The gate of a city was also the seat of judgment (Ruth 4). (“The Condition of Jerusalem - Neh. 1:2-3” by N. Simon)
• They were in great affliction, arising out of their own moral condition and from the activity and enmity of their enemies by whom they were surrounded. (See Neh. 4:1-2.) They were also in reproach. (“Exposition on Nehemiah: Nehemiah 1” by E. Dennett)
• Nothing is more sorrowful than when the Lord's people are reproached by, or become a reproach to, the world through their inconsistent walk and ways. And it would seem from the close of the book of Ezra that the reproach in this case was of the latter kind. Professing to be what they really were—God's people—they were denying it by their alliances with the heathen and by their forgetfulness of the claims of their God. (“Exposition on Nehemiah: Nehemiah 1” by E. Dennett)
• The gate was the place, and thus the emblem, of judgment; and we are thereby instructed that justice and equity were no longer administered (see chap. 5). (“Exposition on Nehemiah: Nehemiah 1” by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And they said to me, Those who remain, that are left of the captivity there in the province, are in great affliction and reproach; and the wall of Jerusalem is in ruins, and its gates are burned with fire.