Nehemiah 4:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹³ 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ 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

¹³ 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)

¹³ 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

¹³ 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

¹³ 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

¹³ I set the people in the place behind the wall round about in order, with their swords, and spears, and bows.

Nehemiah 4:13 Cross References

Nehemiah 4:12

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 6:3

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?”

Psalm 112:5

It is well with those who deal generously and lend, who conduct their affairs with justice.

Matthew 10:16

“I am sending you out like sheep into the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking; rather, be infants in evil, but in thinking be adults.