Nehemiah 1:4 Cross References

Nehemiah 1:4

4: When I heard this, I sat down and wept. In fact, for days I mourned, fasted, and prayed to the God of heaven.

So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and fasting. I wore rough sackcloth and sprinkled myself with ashes.

While Ezra prayed and made this confession, weeping and throwing himself to the ground in front of the Temple of God, a large crowd of people from Israel--men, women, and children--gathered and wept bitterly with him.

Passion for your house burns within me, so those who insult you are also insulting me.
When I weep and fast before the LORD, they scoff at me.

You will arise and have mercy on Jerusalem--and now is the time to pity her, now is the time you promised to help.
For your people love every stone in her walls and show favor even to the dust in her streets.

And Jonah answered, "I am a Hebrew, and I worship the LORD, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the land."

"Israel has been defeated," the messenger replied. "Thousands of Israelite troops are dead on the battlefield. Your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were killed, too. And the Ark of God has been captured."
When the messenger mentioned what had happened to the Ark, Eli fell backward from his seat beside the gate. He broke his neck and died, for he was old and very fat. He had led Israel for forty years.
Eli's daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and near her time of delivery. When she heard that the Ark of God had been captured and that her husband and father-in-law were dead, her labor pains suddenly began.
She died in childbirth, but before she passed away the midwives tried to encourage her. "Don't be afraid," they said. "You have a baby boy!" But she did not answer or respond in any way.
She named the child Ichabod--"Where is the glory?"--murmuring, "Israel's glory is gone." She named him this because the Ark of God had been captured and because her husband and her father-in-law were dead.

"This was their answer: `We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the Temple that was built here many years ago by a great king of Israel.
But because our ancestors angered the God of heaven, he abandoned them to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, who destroyed this Temple and exiled the people to Babylonia.

"I will gather you who mourn for the appointed festivals; you will be disgraced no more.

He urged them to ask the God of heaven to show them his mercy by telling them the secret, so they would not be executed along with the other wise men of Babylon.

When I heard this, I tore my clothing, pulled hair from my head and beard, and sat down utterly shocked.

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