Nehemiah 4:13

Therefore I set guards in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in the open places. I set the people by family groups with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

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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

12When the Jews who lived by them came, they said to us ten times from all places, “Wherever you turn, they will attack us.”

14I looked, and rose up, and said to the nobles, to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, “Don’t be afraid of them! Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your houses.”

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Cross References

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

Nehemiah 6:3I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work, so that I can’t come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and come down to you?”

Song of Solomon 3:7Behold, it is Solomon’s carriage! Sixty mighty men are around it, of the mighty men of Israel.

1 Corinthians 14:20Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts 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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