Then the Jews living among our enemies came and said this to us ten times, ‘Our enemies are all around us. They are everywhere we turn.’”
Nehemiah 4:13 - Easy To Read Version So I put some of the people behind the lowest places along the wall. And I put them by the holes in the wall. I put families together, with their swords, spears, and bows. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
Then the Jews living among our enemies came and said this to us ten times, ‘Our enemies are all around us. They are everywhere we turn.’”
So I sent messengers to them with this answer: “I am doing important work, so I can’t come down. I don’t want the work to stop just so I can come down and meet with you.”
It is good for a person\par to be kind and generous.\par It is good for a person\par to be fair in his business.\par
“Listen! I am sending you, and you will be like sheep among wolves. So be smart like snakes. But also be like doves and do nothing wrong.
Brothers and sisters, don’t think like children. In evil things be like babies. But in your thinking you should be like full-grown people.