◄ Nehemiah 4:18 ►
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Good News Translation
and everyone who was building kept a sword strapped to their waist. The man who was to sound the alarm on the bugle stayed with me.

New Revised Standard Version
And each of the builders had his sword strapped at his side while he built. The man who sounded the trumpet was beside me.

Contemporary English Version
Even the workers who were rebuilding the wall strapped on a sword. The worker who was to blow the signal trumpet stayed with me.

New American Bible
Every builder, while working, had a sword tied at his side. A trumpeter stood beside me,

Douay-Rheims Bible
For every one of the builders was girded with a sword about his reins. And they built, and sounded with a trumpet by me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For every one of the builders was girded with a sword about his reins. And they built, and sounded with a trumpet by me.

by his side.

Numbers 10:9 If you go forth to war out of your land against the enemies that fight against you, you shall sound aloud with the trumpets, and there shall be a remembrance of you before the Lord your God, that you may be delivered out of the hands of your enemies.

2 Chronicles 13:12-17 Therefore God is the leader in our army, and his priests who sound with trumpets, and resound against you: O children of Israel, fight not against the Lord the God of your fathers, for it is not good for you. . . .

Context
Discouragement Overcome
…17Of them that built on the wall and that carried burdens, and that laded: with one of his hands he did the work, and with the other he held a sword. 18For every one of the builders was girded with a sword about his reins. And they built, and sounded with a trumpet by me.19And I said to the nobles, and to the magistrates, and to the rest of the common people: The work is great and wide, and we are separated on the wall one far from another:…
Cross References
Nehemiah 4:13
I set the people in the place behind the wall round about in order, with their swords, and spears, and bows.

Nehemiah 4:17
Of them that built on the wall and that carried burdens, and that laded: with one of his hands he did the work, and with the other he held a sword.

Nehemiah 4:19
And I said to the nobles, and to the magistrates, and to the rest of the common people: The work is great and wide, and we are separated on the wall one far from another:

Ezekiel 33:3
And he sees the sword coming upon the land, and sound the trumpet, and tell the people:

Nehemiah 4:17
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