Nehemiah 4:13

And I said unto the Nobles, and to the Officials, and to the rest of haAm, The melachah is great and spread out, and we are separated along the Chomah, one far from another.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

In Context

12For the Bonim, every one had his cherev girded by his side, and so built. And he that sounded the shofar was by me.

14In what place therefore ye hear the kol haShofar, rally ye thither unto us; Eloheinu shall fight for us.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 32:2And when Chizkiyahu (Yechizkiyahu) saw that Sancheriv was come, and that he was purposed to make milchamah against Yerushalayim,

Nehemiah 6:3And I sent malachim unto them, saying, I am doing a melachah gedolah, so that I cannot come down. Why should the melachah cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?

Song of Solomon 3:7Hinei, his conveyance, + 3:7 See palanquin, 3:9 which is Sh'lomoʼs; 1 threescore gibborim (valiant men) are around it, 1 the Gibborei Yisroel. 1

1 Corinthians 14:20Achim b'Moshiach, be not yeladim in your machsh'vot (thoughts); be infantile in kavvanah ra'ah (malice), perhaps, but in your binah, be mature. + 14:20 Jer 4:22

Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 4:8-16

7 But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth, 8 And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it. 9 Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them. 10 And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is… Read the whole commentary →

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