Nehemiah 4:12
Good News Translation
But time after time Jews who were living among our enemies came to warn us of the plans our enemies were making against us.

New Revised Standard Version
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.”

Contemporary English Version
On at least ten different occasions, the Jews living near our enemies warned us against attacks from every side,

New American Bible
When the Jews who lived near them had come to us from one place after another, and had told us ten times over that they were about to attack us,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And it came to pass, that when the Jews that dwelt by them came and told us ten times, out of all the places from whence they came to us,

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And it came to pass, that when the Jews that dwelt by them came and told us ten times, out of all the places from whence they came to us,

ten times

Genesis 31:7,41 Yea your father hath also overreached me, and hath changed my wages ten times: and yet God hath not suffered him to hurt me. . . .

Numbers 14:22 But yet all the men that have seen my majesty, and the signs that I have done in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now ten times, and have not obeyed my voice,

Job 19:3 Behold, these ten times you confound me, and are not ashamed to oppress me.

From all places, etc.

Context
Discouragement Overcome
11And our enemies said: Let them not know, nor understand, till we come in the midst of them, and kill them, and cause the work to cease. 12And it came to pass, that when the Jews that dwelt by them came and told us ten times, out of all the places from whence they came to us,13I set the people in the place behind the wall round about in order, with their swords, and spears, and bows.…
Cross References
Nehemiah 4:11
And our enemies said: Let them not know, nor understand, till we come in the midst of them, and kill them, and cause the work to cease.

Nehemiah 4:13
I set the people in the place behind the wall round about in order, with their swords, and spears, and bows.

Daniel 1:20
And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king enquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the diviners, and wise men, that were in all his kingdom.

Nehemiah 4:11
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