Nehemiah 4:13 Cross References - Leeser

^{13 (4:7)} I placed therefore on the lower parts of the place on the naked rocks behind the wall—there I placed the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

¹³ And he lodged there that same night; and he took of that which he carried with him a present for Esau his brother: ¹⁴ Two hundred she-goats, and twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams. ¹⁵ Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty cows, and ten bulls, twenty she-asses, and ten foals. ¹⁶ And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself; and he said unto his servants, Pass on before me, and put a space between drove and drove. ¹⁷ And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother should meet thee, and ask thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither art thou going? and for whom are these before thee? ¹⁸ Then shalt thou say, They belong to thy servant, to Jacob; it is a present sent unto my lord, to Esau; and, behold, also, he is himself behind us. ¹⁹ And so he commanded also the second, also the third, as also all that followed the droves, saying, After this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him. ²⁰ And say ye moreover, Behold, also thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will receive me kindly.

² And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was coming, and that his face was directed for war against Jerusalem, ³ He consulted with his princes and his mighty men to stop up the waters of the springs which were without the city: and they helped him. ⁴ And there were gathered together a very numerous body of people, and they stopped up all the springs, and the brook that flowed through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water? ⁵ Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall where it was broken down, and heightened the towers, and built without another wall, and fortified the Millo of the city of David, and made weapons in abundance and shields. ⁶ And he appointed war-officers over the people, and gathered them together unto him in the open place at the gate of the city, and spoke comfortingly to them, saying, ⁷ Be strong and of good courage, do not fear and be not dismayed because of the king of Assyria, and because of all the multitude that is with him; for with us there is One greater than with him: ⁸ With him there is an arm of flesh; but with us is the Lord our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people relied upon the words of Hezekiah the king of Judah.

^{17 (4:11)} Those that built on the wall, and those that bore burdens, with those that loaded,—every one with one of his hands wrought on the work, and with the other hand held a weapon. ^{18 (4:12)} And the builders had every one his sword fastened around his loins while they were building; and he that blew the cornet stood alongside of me.

⁵ Well will it be with the man who is kind, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with justice.

⁷ Behold, it is the bed, which is Solomon’s, sixty valiant men are round about it, of the valiant ones of Israel. ⁸ All of them are girded with the sword, are expert in war; every one hath his sword upon his thigh, because of the terror in the nights.