When the Jews who lived near them came, they said to us ten times, “From all the places where they live they will come up against us.”
Nehemiah 4:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 So in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in open places, I stationed the people according to their families, with their swords, their spears, and their bows. Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So I set [armed men] behind the wall in places where it was least protected; I even thus used the people as families with their swords, spears, and bows. American Standard Version (1901) Therefore set I in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in the open places, I set there the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows. Common English Bible So I took up a position in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall in an open area. Then I stationed the people by families, and they had their swords, spears, and bows. Catholic Public Domain Version So I stationed the people in order, in places behind the wall, all around it, with their swords, and lances, and bows. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I set the people in the place behind the wall round about in order, with their swords, and spears, and bows. |
When the Jews who lived near them came, they said to us ten times, “From all the places where they live they will come up against us.”
So I 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 to come down to you?”
It is well with those who deal generously and lend, who conduct their affairs with justice.
“I am sending you out like sheep into the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.
Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking; rather, be infants in evil, but in thinking be adults.