Nehemiah 4:13

So I positioned people in the lowest parts of the wall in the exposed areas. I positioned each family with their swords, spears, and bows.

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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

12At that time the Jews who lived near them came from all directions and spoke to us ten times, warning us about the schemes they were making against us.

14Then I looked, and stood up, and I said to the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, “Do not be afraid of them. Call to mind the Lord, who is great and awesome. Fight for your families, your sons and your daughters, your wives, and your homes.”

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 32:2When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come and that he intended to fight against Jerusalem,

Nehemiah 6:3I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work, and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?”

Song of Solomon 3:7Look, it is the bed of Solomon; 1 sixty warriors surround it, 1 sixty soldiers of Israel. 1

1 Corinthians 14:20Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Rather, in regard to evil, be like infants. But in your thinking be mature.

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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