Nehemiah 4:13 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹³ Therefore set I in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, In the open places, I even set the people after 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

And it came to pass that, when the Jews which dwelt by them came, they said unto us ten times from all places, Ye must return unto us.

Nehemiah 6:3

And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: Why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?

Psalm 112:5

Well is it with the man that dealeth graciously and lendeth; He shall maintain his cause in judgement.

Matthew 10:16

Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brethren, be not children in mind: howbeit in malice be ye babes, but in mind be men.