Nehemiah 4:11-13

EasyEnglish Bible

¹¹ At the same time, our enemies were boasting, ‘Before the Jews even see us, we will attack them. We will kill them before they know what is happening. That will be the end of their work on the wall!’

¹² The Jews who lived near our enemies warned us many times. They told us that our enemies would attack us wherever we went.

¹³ So I put some men behind the lowest part of the wall where there were holes. Each of the families had guards with swords, spears, bows and arrows.