And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
KJV
Parallel translations
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Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
WEB
About that time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.
YLT
And there is a great cry of the people and their wives, concerning their brethren the Jews,
DBT
And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentNehemiah — 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