Nehemiah 4:7-23
Sanballat Neh 4:1, Neh 2:10, Neh 2:19 the Ammonites Judg 10:7-18, Judg 11:12-40; 1Sam 11:2; 2Sam 10:1-5; 2Kgs 24:2; 2Chr 20:1; Ezek 25:3-7; Amos 1:13 Ashdodites Neh 13:23-24; 1Sam 5:1-2; 2Chr 26:6-8; Jer 25:20; Amos 1:8, Amos 3:9; Zech 9:5-6 heard Ezra 4:4-16, Ezra 5:8 were made up Heb. ascended then Gen 3:15; Acts 4:17-18, Acts 5:33; Rev 12:12-13, Rev 12:17 all Ps 2:1-3, Ps 83:3-11; Isa 8:9-10; Acts 23:12-13 hinder it Heb. make an error to it, Jer 20:10 Nevertheless Neh 4:11; Gen 32:9-12, Gen 32:28; 2Kgs 19:14-19; Ps 50:15, Ps 55:16-22; Luke 6:11-12; Acts 4:24-30 set a watch Matt 26:41; Luke 21:36; 1Pet 5:8 The strength Num 13:31, Num 32:9; Ps 11:1-2; Hag 1:2 bearers 2Chr 2:18; Ezek 29:18 They shall not Judg 20:29-48; 2Sam 17:2; Ps 56:6; Isa 47:11; Acts 23:12, Acts 23:21; 1Thess 5:2 ten times Gen 31:7, Gen 31:41; Num 14:22; Job 19:3 From all places etc. or, That from all places ye must return to us ye shall return Houbigant, Michaelis, and Dathe contend, that instead of tashoovoo, "ye shall return," we should read chashevoo, "they designed." Therefore Gen 32:13-20; 2Chr 32:2-8; Ps 112:5; Matt 10:16; 1Cor 14:20 in the lower places Heb. from the lower parts of the place, etc. their swords. Neh 4:17-18; Song 3:7-8; Eph 6:11-20 Be ye not afraid, Num 14:9; Deut 1:21, Deut 1:29-30, Deut 20:3-4; Josh 1:9; 2Chr 20:15-17, 2Chr 32:7; Ps 27:1, Ps 46:11; Isa 41:10-14; Matt 10:28; Heb 13:6 remember Ps 20:7, Ps 77:10-20, Ps 143:5; Isa 51:12-13, Isa 63:11-13 great Neh 1:5; Deut 10:17; Job 37:22; Ps 65:5, Ps 66:3, Ps 66:5; Isa 64:1-3; Nah 1:2-7; Heb 12:20-21, Heb 12:28-29 fight 2Sam 10:12 God 2Sam 15:31, 2Sam 17:14; Job 5:12-13; Ps 33:10-11; Prov 21:30; Isa 8:10; Isa 44:25; Lam 3:37-38; 1Cor 3:19-20 every one Mark 13:34; Rom 12:11; 1Thess 4:11 my servants Neh 4:23, Neh 5:15-16; Ps 101:6 and the other half This is no unusual thing in Palestine, even at the present day; people sowing their seed are often attended by armed men, to prevent the Arabs from robbing them of it. habergeons Habergeon, from the Teutonic hals, the neck, and bergen, to cover, defend, may be considered as signifying a breast-plate, though the Franco-Gallic hautbergon signifies a coat of mail; the original shiryon, we have already seen, denotes a corslet. 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."
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