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Neh. 4:13 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Therefore set I νin 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.

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from the lower parts of the place.

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Therefore.

Gen. 32:13‑20• ¹³And he lodged there that night; and took of what came to his hand a gift for Esau his brother--
¹⁴two hundred she-goats, and twenty he-goats; two hundred ewes, and twenty rams;
¹⁵thirty milch camels with their colts; forty kine, and ten bulls; twenty she-asses, and ten young asses.
¹⁶And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself; and he said to his servants, Go on before me, and put a space between drove and drove.
¹⁷And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meets thee, and asks thee, saying, Whose art thou, and where goest thou, and whose are these before thee?
¹⁸--then thou shalt say, Thy servant Jacob's: it is a gift sent to my lord, to Esau. And behold, he also is behind us.
¹⁹And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, According to this word shall ye speak to Esau when ye find him.
²⁰And, moreover, ye shall say, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will propitiate him with the gift that goes before me, and afterwards I will see his face: perhaps he will accept me. (Gen. 32:13‑20)

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2 Chron. 32:2‑8• ²And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was minded to fight against Jerusalem,
³he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the fountains of waters that were outside the city; and they helped him.
⁴And there was gathered together much people, and they stopped all the fountains, and the torrent that flows through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come and find much water?
⁵And he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised it up to the towers, and built another wall outside, and fortified the Millo of the city of David, and made darts and shields in abundance.
⁶And he set captains of war over the people, and assembled them to him on the open place at the gate of the city, and spoke consolingly to them saying,
⁷Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him; for there are more with us than with him:
⁸with him is an arm of flesh, but with us is Jehovah our God to help us and to fight our battles. And the people depended upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah. (2 Chron. 32:2‑8)

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Psa. 112:5• ⁵It is well with the man that is gracious and lendeth; he will sustain his cause in judgment. (Psa. 112:5)

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Matt. 10:16• ¹⁶Behold, *I* send you as sheep in the midst of wolves; be therefore prudent as the serpents, and guileless as the doves. (Matt. 10:16)

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1 Cor. 14:20• ²⁰Brethren, be not children in your minds, but in malice be babes; but in your minds be grown men. (1 Cor. 14:20)

in the lower places.

Heb. from the lower parts of the place,etc.

their swords.

Neh. 4:17‑18• ¹⁷They that built on the wall, and they that bore burdens, with those that loaded, wrought in the work with one hand, and with the other they held a weapon.
¹⁸And the builders had every one his sword girded by his side, and built. And he that sounded the trumpet was by me. (Neh. 4:17‑18)

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Song of Sol. 3:7‑8• ⁷Behold his couch, Solomon's own: Threescore mighty men are about it, Of the mighty of Israel.
⁸They all hold the sword, Experts in war; Each hath his sword upon his thigh Because of alarm in the nights. (Song of Sol. 3:7‑8)

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Eph. 6:11‑20• ¹¹Put on the panoply of God, that ye may be able to stand against the artifices of the devil:
¹²because our struggle is not against blood and flesh, but against principalities, against authorities, against the universal lords of this darkness, against spiritual power of wickedness in the heavenlies.
¹³For this reason take to you the panoply of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having accomplished all things, to stand.
¹⁴Stand therefore, having girt about your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
¹⁵and shod your feet with the preparation of the glad tidings of peace:
¹⁶besides all these, having taken the shield of faith with which ye will be able to quench all the inflamed darts of the wicked one.
¹⁷Have also the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is God's word;
¹⁸praying at all seasons, with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching unto this very thing with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints;
¹⁹and for me in order that utterance may be given to me in the opening of my mouth to make known with boldness the mystery of the glad tidings,
²⁰for which I am an ambassador bound with a chain, that I may be bold in it as I ought to speak. (Eph. 6:11‑20)

• When Satan is in question we are powerless unless we are in the right place and equipped with divine weapons. (“Exposition on Nehemiah: Nehemiah 4:1-15” by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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I set in the lower places behind the wall in exposed places, I even set the people, according to their families, with their swords, their spears and their bows.