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Nehemiah 4:11
Nehemiah 4:11 is verse 11 of Nehemiah chapter 4, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
And our enemies said, “Before they know or see a thing, we will come into their midst, kill them, and put an end to the work.”
King James Version
And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease.
World English Bible
Our adversaries said, “They will not know or see, until we come in among them and kill them, and cause the work to cease.”
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Nehemiah 4:9–13 · Berean Standard Bible
9 So we prayed to our God and posted a guard against them day and night.
10 Meanwhile, the people of Judah said: “The strength of the laborer fails, and there is so much rubble that we will never be able to rebuild the wall.”
11 And our enemies said, “Before they know or see a thing, we will come into their midst, kill them, and put an end to the work.”
12 At that time the Jews who lived nearby came and told us ten times over, “Wherever you turn, they will attack us.”
13 So I stationed men behind the lowest sections of the wall, at the vulnerable areas. I stationed them by families with their swords, spears, and bows.
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Judges 20:29So Israel set up an ambush around Gibeah.
Judges 20:30On the third day the Israelites went up against the Benjamites and arrayed themselves against Gibeah as they had done before.
Judges 20:31The Benjamites came out against them and were drawn away from the city. They began to attack the people as before, killing about thirty men of Israel in the fields and on the roads, one of which led up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah.
Judges 20:32“We are defeating them as before,” said the Benjamites. But the Israelites said, “Let us retreat and draw them away from the city onto the roads.”
Judges 20:33So all the men of Israel got up from their places and arrayed themselves at Baal-tamar, and the Israelites in ambush charged from their positions west of Gibeah.
Judges 20:34Then 10,000 select men from all Israel made a frontal assault against Gibeah, and the battle was fierce. But the Benjamites did not realize that disaster was upon them.
Judges 20:35The LORD defeated Benjamin in the presence of Israel, and on that day the Israelites slaughtered 25,100 Benjamites, all armed with swords.
Judges 20:36Then the Benjamites realized they had been defeated. Now the men of Israel had retreated before Benjamin because they were relying on the ambush they had set against Gibeah.
Judges 20:37The men in ambush rushed suddenly against Gibeah; they advanced and put the whole city to the sword.
Judges 20:38The men of Israel had arranged a signal with the men in ambush: When they sent up a great cloud of smoke from the city,
Judges 20:39the men of Israel would turn in the battle. When the Benjamites had begun to strike them down, killing about thirty men of Israel, they said, “They are defeated before us as in the first battle.”
Judges 20:40But when the column of smoke began to go up from the city, the Benjamites looked behind them and saw the whole city going up in smoke.
Judges 20:41Then the men of Israel turned back on them, and the men of Benjamin were terrified when they realized that disaster had come upon them.
Judges 20:42So they fled before the men of Israel toward the wilderness, but the battle overtook them, and the men coming out of the cities struck them down there.
Judges 20:43They surrounded the Benjamites, pursued them, and easily overtook them in the vicinity of Gibeah on the east.
Judges 20:44And 18,000 Benjamites fell, all men of valor.
Judges 20:45Then the Benjamites turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and Israel cut down 5,000 men on the roads. And they overtook them at Gidom and struck down 2,000 more.
Judges 20:46That day 25,000 Benjamite swordsmen fell, all men of valor.
Judges 20:47But 600 men turned and fled into the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, where they stayed four months.
Judges 20:48And the men of Israel turned back against the other Benjamites and put to the sword all the cities, including the animals and everything else they found. And they burned down all the cities in their path.
2 Samuel 17:2I will attack him while he is weak and weary; I will throw him into a panic, and all the people with him will flee; I will strike down only the king
Psalms 56:6They conspire, they lurk, they watch my steps while they wait to take my life.
Isaiah 47:11But disaster will come upon you; you will not know how to charm it away. A calamity will befall you that you will be unable to ward off. Devastation will happen to you suddenly and unexpectedly.
Acts 23:12When daylight came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul.
Acts 23:21Do not let them persuade you, because more than forty men are waiting to ambush him. They have bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they have killed him; they are ready now, awaiting your consent.”
1 Thessalonians 5:2For you are fully aware that the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.