Nehemiah 4:11-13

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

¹¹ And our enemies said, They will not know or see till we come into their midst and kill them and stop the work.

¹² And when the Jews who lived near them came, they said to us ten times, You must return [to guard our little villages]; from all places where they dwell they will be upon us.

¹³ So I set [armed men] behind the wall in places where it was least protected; I even thus used the people as families with their swords, spears, and bows.