Cross references

Nehemiah 3:5

Next to him, the Tekoites made repairs, but their nobles did not put their shoulders to the work under their supervisors.

Nehemiah 3:5 BSB
  1. a Or their Lord or the governor

Nehemiah 3:5 has 13 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 1 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Nehemiah 3:27 (4 votes) and 2 Samuel 14:2 (3 votes). 14 other verses point back to it. It links with 14 other books, from Numbers 21 to 1 Timothy 6.

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Which verses does Nehemiah 3:5 point to?

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

  1. And next to them, the Tekoites repaired another section, from a point opposite the great tower that juts out to the wall of Ophel.

  2. So Joab sent to Tekoa to bring a wise woman from there. He told her, “Please pretend to be a mourner; put on clothes for mourning and do not anoint yourself with oil. Act like a woman who has mourned for the dead a long time.

  3. ‘Curse Meroz,’ says the angel of the LORD. ‘Bitterly curse her inhabitants; for they did not come to help the LORD, to help the LORD against the mighty.’

  4. Then I said, “They are only the poor; they have played the fool, for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God. I will go to the powerful and speak to them. Surely they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.” But they too, with one accord, had broken the yoke and torn off the chains.

  5. This is what the LORD said to me: “Make for yourself a yoke out of leather straps and put it on your neck.

  6. As for the nation or kingdom that does not serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and does not place its neck under his yoke, I will punish that nation by sword and famine and plague, declares the LORD, until I have destroyed it by his hand.

  7. And to Zedekiah king of Judah I spoke the same message: “Put your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon; serve him and his people, and live!

  8. On that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will break the yoke off their necks and tear off their bonds, and no longer will strangers enslave them. Instead, they will serve the LORD their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.

  9. Amos 1:11 vote

    These are the words of Amos, who was among the sheepherders of Tekoa—what he saw concerning Israel two years before the earthquake, in the days when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam son of Jehoash was king of Israel.

  10. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

Which verses point to Nehemiah 3:5?

The 10 strongest of 14.