Nehemiah 4:13
Good News Translation
So I armed the people with swords, spears, and bows, and stationed them by clans behind the wall, wherever it was still unfinished.

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.

Contemporary English Version
and so I sent people to guard the wall at its lowest places and where there were still holes in it. I placed them according to families, and they stood guard with swords and spears and with bows and arrows.

New American Bible
I stationed guards down below, behind the wall, near the exposed points, assigning them by family groups with their swords, spears, and bows.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I set the people in the place behind the wall round about in order, with their swords, and spears, and bows.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Therefore

Genesis 32:13-20 And when he had slept there that night, he set apart, of the things which he had, presents for his brother Esau, . . .

2 Chronicles 32:2-8 And when Ezechias saw that Sennacherib was come, and that the whole force of the war was turning against Jerusalem, . . .

Psalm 112:5 Acceptable is the man that sheweth mercy and lendeth: he shall order his words with judgment:

Matthew 10:16 Behold I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves. Be ye therefore wise as serpents and simple as doves.

1 Corinthians 14:20 Brethren, do not become children in sense. But in malice be children: and in sense be perfect.

in the lower places.

Nehemiah 4:17,18 Of them that built on the wall and that carried burdens, and that laded: with one of his hands he did the work, and with the other he held a sword. . . .

Songs 3:7,8 Behold threescore valiant ones of the most valiant of Israel, surrounded the bed of Solomon? . . .

Ephesians 6:11-20 Put you on the armour of God, that you may be able to stand against the deceits of the devil. . . .

Context
Discouragement Overcome
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.14And I looked and rose up: and I said to the chief men and the magistrates, and to the rest of the common people: be not afraid of them. Remember the Lord who is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, and your wives, and your houses.…
Cross References
Nehemiah 4:12
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,

Nehemiah 4:17
Of them that built on the wall and that carried burdens, and that laded: with one of his hands he did the work, and with the other he held a sword.

Nehemiah 4:18
For every one of the builders was girded with a sword about his reins. And they built, and sounded with a trumpet by me.

Nehemiah 4:12
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