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 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. 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. |
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.
“See, 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.