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.
Parallel translations
- KJV Therefore set I in 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.
- BSB So I stationed men behind the lowest sections of the wall, at the vulnerable areas. I stationed them by families with their swords, spears, and bows.
- NKJV Therefore I positioned men behind the lower parts of the wall, at the openings; and I set the people according to their families, with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
- NASB then I stationed men in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, the exposed places, and I stationed the people in families with their swords, spears, and bows.
- NLT So I placed armed guards behind the lowest parts of the wall in the exposed areas. I stationed the people to stand guard by families, armed with swords, spears, and bows.
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- Eph 6:11–20Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
- Neh 4:17–18Those who built the wall, and those who bore burdens loaded themselves; everyone with one of his hands did the work, and with the other held his weapon.
- Song 3:7–8Behold, it is Solomon’s carriage! Sixty mighty men are around it, of the mighty men of Israel.
- Ps 112:5It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.
- 2 Chr 32:2–8When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come, and that he was planning to fight against Jerusalem,
- Gen 32:13–20He stayed there that night, and took from that which he had with him, a present for Esau, his brother:
- 1 Cor 14:20Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.
- Matt 10:16“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
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