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Nehemiah 4:13 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Therefore I set guards in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in the open places. I set the people by family groups with their swords, their spears, and their bows. "

Nehemiah 4:13

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11 Our adversaries said, “They will not know or see, until we come in among them and kill them, and cause the work to cease.”

12 When the Jews who lived by them came, they said to us ten times from all places, “Wherever you turn, they will attack us.”

13 Therefore I set guards in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in the open places. I set the people by family groups with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

14 I looked, and rose up, and said to the nobles, to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, “Don’t be afraid of them! Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your houses.”

15 When our enemies heard that it was known to us, and God had brought their counsel to nothing, all of us returned to the wall, everyone to his work.

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From This Chapter

Nehemiah 4:1

"But when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and was very indignant, and mocked the Jews."

Nehemiah 4:2

"He spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, since they are burned?”"

Nehemiah 4:3

"Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, “What they are building, if a fox climbed up it, he would break down their stone wall.”"

Nehemiah 4:4

"“Hear, our God, for we are despised. Turn back their reproach on their own head. Give them up for a plunder in a land of captivity."

Nehemiah 4:5

"Don’t cover their iniquity. Don’t let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders.”"

Nehemiah 4:6

"So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half its height, for the people had a mind to work."

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