Nehemia 4:7
Konteks4:7 (4:1) 1 When Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites, and the people of Ashdod heard that the restoration of the walls of Jerusalem 2 had moved ahead and that the breaches had begun to be closed, they were very angry.
Nehemia 4:13
Konteks4:13 So I stationed people at the lower places behind the wall in the exposed places. 3 I stationed the people by families, with their swords, spears, and bows.
Nehemia 11:25
Konteks11:25 As for the settlements with their fields, some of the people of Judah settled in Kiriath Arba and its neighboring villages, 4 in Dibon and its villages, in Jekabzeel and its settlements,
[4:7] 1 sn Chapter 4 begins here in the Hebrew text (BHS). See the note at 4:1.
[4:7] 2 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
[4:13] 3 tc The MT preserves the anomalous Kethib form צְחִחִיִּים (tsÿkhikhiyyim); the Qere reads צְחִיחִים (tsÿkhikhim) which is preferred (BDB 850 s.v. צָהִיחַ; HALOT 1018 s.v. *צָהִיחַ).
[4:13] tn The meaning of the Hebrew term צְחִיחִים (tsÿkhikhim) here is uncertain. Elsewhere (Ezek 24:7, 8; 26:4, 14) it refers to a shining or glaring surface of a rock (BDB 850 s.v. צָהִיחַ; HALOT 1018 s.v. *צָהִיחַ), but here it refers to an exposed or vulnerable portion of the wall: “open positions of the wall” (HALOT 1018 s.v. 2).
[11:25] 4 tn Heb “its daughters.” So also in vv. 27, 28, 30, and 31.