Nehemiah 4:17
Good News Translation
who were rebuilding the wall. Even those who carried building materials worked with one hand and kept a weapon in the other,

New Revised Standard Version
who were building the wall. The burden bearers carried their loads in such a way that each labored on the work with one hand and with the other held a weapon.

Contemporary English Version
who were rebuilding the wall. Everyone who hauled building materials kept one hand free to carry a weapon.

New American Bible
as they rebuilt the wall. The load carriers, too, were armed; each worked with one hand and held a weapon with the other.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Of them that built on the wall and that carried burdens, and that laded: with one of his hands he did the work, and with the other he held a sword.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Of them that built on the wall and that carried burdens, and that laded: with one of his hands he did the work, and with the other he held a sword.

bare burdens

Nehemiah 4:10 And Juda said: The strength of the bearer of burdens is decayed, and the rubbish is very much, and we shall not be able to build the wall.

with one

Daniel 9:25 Know thou, therefore, and take notice: that from the going forth of the word, to build up Jerusalem again, unto Christ, the prince, there shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks: and the street shall be built again, and the walls, in straitness of times.

1 Corinthians 9:12 If others be partakers of this power over you, why not we rather? Nevertheless, we have not used this power: but we bear all things, lest we should give any hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

1 Corinthians 16:9,13 For a great door and evident is opened unto me: and many adversaries. . . .

2 Corinthians 6:7 In the word of truth, in the power of God: by the armour of justice on the right hand and on the left:

Ephesians 6:11 Put you on the armour of God, that you may be able to stand against the deceits of the devil.

Philippians 1:28 And in nothing be ye terrified by the adversaries: which to them is a cause of perdition, but to you of salvation, and this from God.

2 Timothy 2:3 Labour as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 4:7 I have fought a good fight: I have finished my course: I have kept the faith.

Context
Discouragement Overcome
16And it came to pass from that day forward, that half of their young men did the work, and half were ready for to fight, with spears, and shields, and bows, and coats of mail, and the rulers were behind them in all the house of Juda. 17Of them that built on the wall and that carried burdens, and that laded: with one of his hands he did the work, and with the other he held a sword.18For every one of the builders was girded with a sword about his reins. And they built, and sounded with a trumpet by me.…
Cross References
Nehemiah 4:13
I set the people in the place behind the wall round about in order, with their swords, and spears, and bows.

Nehemiah 4:16
And it came to pass from that day forward, that half of their young men did the work, and half were ready for to fight, with spears, and shields, and bows, and coats of mail, and the rulers were behind them in all the house of Juda.

Nehemiah 4:18
For every one of the builders was girded with a sword about his reins. And they built, and sounded with a trumpet by me.

Psalm 149:6
The high praises of God shall be in their mouth: and two-edged swords in their hands:

Nehemiah 4:16
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