Nehemiah 4:23
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| Overview - Nehemiah 4 | |
| 1 | While the enemies scoff, Nehemiah prays and continues the work. |
| 7 | Understanding the wrath and secrets of the enemy, he sets a watch. |
| 13 | He arms the labourers; |
| 19 | and gives military precepts. |
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Nehemiah 4:23 (King James Version)
So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of us put off our clothes, saving that every one put them off for washing.
- So neither I
- 5:16 7:2 Judges 9:48 ; 1 Corinthians 15:10
- saving that, etc or, every one went with his weapon for
- water.
- Judges 5:11
- The original of this obscure clause is {ish shilcho hammayim,} which is rendered by Montanus, {vir missile suum aquas,} "a man his dart to the waters," of which it is difficult to make sense It is wholly omitted by the LXX.; and one of De Rossi's MSS. reads, {meshallachah l hammayim,} "in order to send them to the water."