Nehemiah 4:13
So I set—on the lower slopes of the place behind the wall in the waste grounds,—yea I set the people, by their families, with their swords, their spears and their bows.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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2 Chronicles 32:2And, when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come,—and that, his face, was—to war, against Jerusalem,
Nehemiah 6:3So I sent unto them messengers, saying, A great work, am, I, doing, and cannot come down,—wherefore should the work cease whilst I leave it, and come down unto you?
Song of Solomon 3:7Lo! his couch,’tis Solomon’s own, Threescore heroes, around it,—of the heroes of Israel:
1 Corinthians 14:20Brethren! do not become children, in your understandings; but, in baseness, become babes, while, in your understandings, ye become, full-grown.
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 →