1 Kings 5:4-5
4 aBut now the Lord my God has given me rest on every side. There is neither adversary nor misfortune. 5And so I intend to build a house for the name of the Lord my God, bas the Lord said to David my father, ‘Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place, shall build the house for my name.’1 Chronicles 22:9-10
9Behold, a son shall be born to you who shall be a man of rest. cI will give him rest from all his surrounding enemies. dFor his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quiet to Israel in his days. 10 eHe shall build a house for my name. fHe shall be my son, and I will be his father, and I will establish his royal throne in Israel forever.’Ezra 7:9
9For on the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babylonia, and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, gfor the good hand of his God was on him.Nehemiah 4:1-11
Opposition to the Work
1 ▼▼Ch 3:33 in Hebrew
Now when iSanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry and greatly enraged, and he jeered at the Jews. 2And he said in the presence of his brothers and of the army of jSamaria, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they restore it for themselves? ▼▼Or Will they commit themselves to God?
Will they sacrifice? Will they finish up in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, and burned ones at that?” 3 lTobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, “Yes, what they are building— mif a fox goes up on it he will break down their stone wall!” 4 nHear, O our God, for we are despised. oTurn back their taunt on their own heads and give them up to be plundered in a land where they are captives. 5 pDo not cover their guilt, and let not their sin be blotted out from your sight, for they have provoked you to anger in the presence of the builders. 6So we built the wall. And all the wall was joined together to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.
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▼Ch 4:1 in Hebrew
But when rSanballat and Tobiah and the Arabs and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and that the breaches were beginning to be closed, they were very angry. 8 sAnd they all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and to cause confusion in it. 9And we prayed to our God and set a guard as a protection against them day and night. 10In Judah it was said, ▼
▼Hebrew Judah said
“The strength of those who bear the burdens is failing. There is too much rubble. By ourselves we will not be able to rebuild the wall.” 11And our enemies said, “They will not know or see till we come among them and kill them and stop the work.” Daniel 9:25
25 uKnow therefore and understand that vfrom the going out of the word to restore and wbuild Jerusalem to the coming of an xanointed one, a yprince, there shall be seven weeks. Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again ▼▼Or there shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It shall be built again
with squares and moat, aabut in a troubled time. 1 Corinthians 16:9
9for aba wide door for effective work has opened to me, and acthere are many adversaries.
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