Neh 4:17-23 | TSK | e4.org | bare burdens every one That is, he had his arms at hand; and was as fully prepared to fight as to work. The builders could not possibly have made any progress, if they had literally held a weapon in one of their hands; but the expression is evidently figurative, implying that every man was a much a soldier as a builder. with one ; , , ; ; ; ; ;

‏ Nehemiah 4:17-23

bare burdens Neh 4:10

every one That is, he had his arms at hand; and was as fully prepared to fight as to work. The builders could not possibly have made any progress, if they had literally held a weapon in one of their hands; but the expression is evidently figurative, implying that every man was a much a soldier as a builder.

with one Dan 9:25; 1Cor 9:12, 1Cor 16:9, 1Cor 16:13; 2Cor 6:7; Eph 6:11-20; Phil 1:28; 2Tim 2:3; 2Tim 4:7

by his side Heb. on his loins

he that sounded Num 10:9; 2Chr 13:12-17

our God Exod 14:14, Exod 14:25; Deut 1:30, Deut 3:22, Deut 20:4; Josh 23:10; Zech 14:3

So we 1Cor 15:10, 1Cor 15:58; Gal 6:9; Col 1:29

every one Neh 11:1-2

So neither I Neh 5:16, Neh 7:2; Judg 9:48; 1Cor 15:10

saving that etc. or, every one went with his weapon for water, Judg 5:11; The original of this obscure clause is ish shilcho hammayim, which is rendered by Montanus, vir missile suum aquas, "a man his dart to the waters," of which it is difficult to make sense. It is wholly omitted by the LXX; and one of De Rossi's manuscripts reads, meshallachah al hammayim, "in order to send them to the water."