Nehemiah 4:18 KJV — MannaFest

Nehemiah 4:18

For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded. And he that sounded the trumpet was by me.

KJV

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ASV

and the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded. And he that sounded the trumpet was by me.

WEB

And each of the builders worked with his sword strapped at his side. But the trumpeter stayed beside me.

YLT

And the builders are each with his sword, girded on his loins, and building, and he who is blowing with a trumpet is beside me.

DBT

And the builders had every one his sword girded by his side, and built. And he that sounded the trumpet was by me.

About this book

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Nehemiah — The walls rebuilt in fifty-two days; the covenant renewed; the reforms enacted and then re-enacted when Nehemiah returns to find them slipping. A book about civic and spiritual reconstruction side by side.

Author: Nehemiah (chs. 1–7, 11–13 largely first-person memoir); Ezra-material probably compiled alongside
Date: Events 445–432 BC; final compilation late-5th century BC

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Numbers 10:9
And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the Lord your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.
1 Corinthians 14:8
For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?
Ezekiel 33:3
If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;
2 Chronicles 13:12–17
And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the Lord God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.

Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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2 And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

), which he could carry without hindering his labour. The word of God is the sword of the Spirit, which we ought to have always at hand and never to seek, both in our labours and in our conflicts as Christians. Care was taken both to get and give early notice of the approach of the enemy, in case they should endeavour to surprise them.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

When they acted as workmen, it was requisite they should be dispersed wherever there was work to do; but when as soldiers it was requisite they should come into close order, and be found in a body. Thus should the labourers in Christ's building be ready to unite against a common foe.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Nehemiah's vigilance anticipated every difficulty, his prudent measures defeated every obstruction, and with astonishing rapidity this Jerusalem was made again "a city fortified."

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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