Cross references

Nehemiah 1:4

When I heard these words, I sat down and wept. I mourned for days, fasting and praying before the God of heaven.

Nehemiah 1:4 BSB

Nehemiah 1:4 has 13 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 9 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Daniel 9:3 (14 votes) and Psalm 137:1 (9 votes). 18 other verses point back to it. It links with 15 other books, from Deuteronomy 9 to Revelation 16.

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Which verses does Nehemiah 1:4 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Daniel 9:314 votes

    So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.

  2. By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.

  3. Ezra 10:18 votes

    While Ezra prayed and made this confession, weeping and falling facedown before the house of God, a very large assembly of Israelites—men, women, and children—gathered around him, and the people wept bitterly as well.

  4. “What is your request?” replied the king. So I prayed to the God of heaven

  5. because zeal for Your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult You have fallen on me. I wept and fasted, but it brought me reproach.

  6. You will rise up and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show her favor—the appointed time has come. For Your servants delight in her stones and take pity on her dust.

  7. “I will gather those among you who grieve over the appointed feasts, so that you will no longer suffer reproach.

  8. urging them to plead for mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that Daniel and his friends would not be killed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

  9. Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.

  10. And this is the answer they returned: “We are servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the temple that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and completed. But since our fathers angered the God of heaven, He delivered them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean who destroyed this temple and carried away the people to Babylon.

  11. Ezra 9:33 votes
  12. Jonah 1:93 votes

Which verses point to Nehemiah 1:4?

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