8They all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and stir up trouble against it.


In Context

5 Do not cover up their guilt or blot out their sins from your sight, for they have thrown insults in the face of the builders.

6 So we rebuilt the wall till all of it reached half its height, for the people worked with all their heart.

7 But when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites and the men of Ashdod heard that the repairs to Jerusalem's walls had gone ahead and that the gaps were being closed, they were very angry.

8 They all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and stir up trouble against it.

9 But we prayed to our God and posted a guard day and night to meet this threat.

10 Meanwhile, the people in Judah said, "The strength of the laborers is giving out, and there is so much rubble that we cannot rebuild the wall."

Nehemiah 4:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:8And conspired all of them together to come [and] to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:8And they all assembled themselves together, to come, and to fight against Jerusalem, and to prepare ambushes.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:8and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:8and conspired all of them together to come to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:8and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:8And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:8and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:8and they conspire, all of them together, to come in to fight against Jerusalem, and to do to it injury.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:8And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.