Nehemiah 4:6
Good News Translation
So we went on rebuilding the wall, and soon it was half its full height, because the people were eager to work.

New Revised Standard Version
So we rebuilt the wall, and all the wall was joined together to half its height; for the people had a mind to work.

Contemporary English Version
The people worked hard, and we built the walls of Jerusalem halfway up again.

New American Bible
We, however, continued to build the wall, and soon it was completed up to half its height. The people worked enthusiastically.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So we built the wall, and joined it all together unto the half thereof: and the heart of the people was excited to work.

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So we built the wall, and joined it all together unto the half thereof: and the heart of the people was excited to work.

had a mind

Nehemiah 6:15 But the wall was finished the five and twentieth day of the month of Elul, in two and fifty days.

1 Chronicles 29:3,14,17,18 Now over and above the things which I have offered into the house of my God I give of my own proper goods, gold and silver for the temple of my God, beside what things I have prepared for the holy house. . . .

2 Chronicles 29:36 And Ezechias, and all the people rejoiced because the ministry of the Lord was accomplished. For the resolution of doing this thing was taken suddenly.

Psalm 110:3 With thee is the principality in the day of thy strength: in the brightness of the saints: from the womb before the day star I begot thee.

2 Corinthians 8:16,17 And thanks be to God, who hath given the same carefulness for you in the heart of Titus. . . .

Philippians 2:13 For it is God who worketh in you, both to will and to accomplish, according to his good will.

Hebrews 13:21 Fit you in all goodness, that you may do his will; doing in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom is glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Context
The Work is Ridiculed
5Cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thy face, because they have mocked thy builders. 6So we built the wall, and joined it all together unto the half thereof: and the heart of the people was excited to work.7And it came to pass, when Sanaballat, and Tobias, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Azotians heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and the breaches began to be closed, that they were exceedingly angry.…
Cross References
Nehemiah 4:5
Cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thy face, because they have mocked thy builders.

Nehemiah 4:7
And it came to pass, when Sanaballat, and Tobias, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Azotians heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and the breaches began to be closed, that they were exceedingly angry.

Psalm 122:3
Jerusalem, which is built as a city, which is compact together.

Haggai 1:14
And the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zorobabel the son of Salathiel governor of Juda, and the spirit of Jesus the son of Josedec the high priest, and the spirit of all the rest of the people: and they went in, and did the work in the house of the Lord of Hosts their God.

Nehemiah 4:5
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