Nehemiah 4:6 KJV — MannaFest

So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.

KJV

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ASV

So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto half the height thereof: for the people had a mind to work.

WEB

So we rebuilt the wall until all of it was joined together up to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.

YLT

And we build the wall, and all the wall is joined--unto its half, and the people have a heart to work.

DBT

But we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to the half thereof; for the people had a mind to work.

About this book

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Nehemiah — The walls rebuilt in fifty-two days; the covenant renewed; the reforms enacted and then re-enacted when Nehemiah returns to find them slipping. A book about civic and spiritual reconstruction side by side.

Author: Nehemiah (chs. 1–7, 11–13 largely first-person memoir); Ezra-material probably compiled alongside
Date: Events 445–432 BC; final compilation late-5th century BC

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15 verses on the floor

Philippians 2:13
For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
Nehemiah 6:15
So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.
Hebrews 13:21
Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
1 Chronicles 29:3
Moreover, because I have set my affection to the house of my God, I have of mine own proper good, of gold and silver, which I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

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9 Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them. 10 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.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof--The whole circuit of the wall had been distributed in sections to various companies of the people, and was completed to the half of the intended height.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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H2677125× in canon H2346133× in canon H1129376× in canon

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

NEH 4:6PHP 2:13 2CO 3:5
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
NEH 4:6PHP 2:13 HEB 13:21
NEH 4:6PHP 2:13 2TI 1:9
NEH 4:6PHP 2:13 ROM 9:16
NEH 4:6PHP 2:13 1CO 15:10
NEH 4:6HEB 13:21 PHP 2:13
NEH 4:6HEB 13:21 2TH 2:17
NEH 4:6HEB 13:21 PHP 4:13

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