Nehemiah 4:20

If you hear the man blowing the trumpet, gather around us at that place. Remember that our God will fight for us!”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

In what place therefore ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither unto us: our God shall fight for us.

In Context

19Then I said to the officials, the other important men, and the other people, “This wall is very long, and we are far apart from each other along the wall.

21So we continued to work. Half of the men continued to hold their spears all day, from when the sun rose in the morning until the stars appeared at night.

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Cross References

Exodus 14:14Yahweh will fight for you! Just keep quiet. There is nothing else that you will have to do.”

Deuteronomy 1:30Yahweh our God will go ahead of you, and he will fight for you, just like you saw him do for you in Egypt

Deuteronomy 20:4because Yahweh our God will go with you. He will fight your enemies for you, and he will enable you to defeat them.’

1 Chronicles 19:12Joab said to them, “If the soldiers from Syria are too strong for us to defeat them, then your soldiers must come and help us. But if the soldiers from the Ammon people-group are too strong for you to defeat them, then my soldiers will come and help your men.

Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 4:17-23

The Precautions of Nehemiah. ( b. c. 445.) 16 And it came to pass from that time forth, that the half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the habergeons; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah. 17 They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon. 18 For the builders, every one had his sword girded by… Read the whole commentary →

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