Nehemia 4:13
Konteks4:13 So I stationed people at the lower places behind the wall in the exposed places. 1 I stationed the people by families, with their swords, spears, and bows.
Nehemia 8:14
Konteks8:14 They discovered written in the law that the LORD had commanded through 2 Moses that the Israelites should live in temporary shelters during the festival of the seventh month,
[4:13] 1 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).