NEH 4:8 Parallel Verse View

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Original NEH 4:2: Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)

Key: khaki:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

BrLXX (EZR 14:2) Καὶ συνήχθησαν πάντες ἐπιτοαυτὸ, ἐλθεῖν παρατάξασθαι ἐν Ἱερουσαλὴμ καὶ ποιῆσαι αὐτὴν ἀφανῆ.
(Kai sunaʸⱪthaʸsan pantes epitoauto, elthein parataxasthai en Hierousalaʸm kai poiaʸsai autaʸn afanaʸ.)

BrTr (NEH 4:2) And he said before his brethren (that is the army of the Samaritans) Is it true that these Jews are building their city? do they indeed offer sacrifices? will they prevail? and will they this day restore the stones, after they have been burnt and made a heap of rubbish?

ULT And all of them together conspired to come to fight against Jerusalem and to make confusion for it.

UST All of them together made a plan to come and fight against the people of Jerusalem. They wanted to make the people inside the city confused and divided.

BSB & MSB and all of them conspired to come and fight against Jerusalem and create a hindrance.

OEB No OEB NEH 4:8 book available

WEBBE & WMBB and they all conspired together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion amongst us.

MSG ^(7-9)When Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the repairs of the walls of Jerusalem were going so well—that the breaks in the wall were being fixed—they were absolutely furious. They put their heads together and decided to fight against Jerusalem and create as much trouble as they could. We countered with prayer to our God and set a round-the-clock guard against them.

NET All of them conspired together to move with armed forces against Jerusalem and to create a disturbance in it.

LSV and they conspire, all of them together, to come to fight against Jerusalem, and to do to it injury.

FBV They all plotted together to come and attack Jerusalem and to throw everything into confusion.

T4T They all planned to come and fight against the people of Jerusalem [MTY] and to cause trouble.

LEB So all of them plotted together to come fight against Jerusalem and to make trouble for it.

BBE And they made designs, all of them together, to come and make an attack on Jerusalem, causing trouble there.

Moff they all conspired together to go and attack Jerusalem and make confusion in the city.

JPS (NEH 4:2) (3-34) And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said: 'What do these feeble Jews? will they restore at will? will they sacrifice? will they make an end this day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, seeing they are burned?'

ASV and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.

DRA And they all assembled themselves together, to come, and to fight against Jerusalem, and to prepare ambushes.

YLT and they conspire, all of them together, to come in to fight against Jerusalem, and to do to it injury.

Drby and conspired all of them together to come to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.

RV and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.
(and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Yerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.)

SLT And they will conspire all of them together to come to war against Jerusalem, and to do damage to it.

Wbstr And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.

KJB-1769 And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.[fn]
(And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Yerusalem, and to hinder it.)

4.8 to hinder…: Heb. to make an error to it

KJB-1611 And conspired all of them together, to come and to fight against Ierusalem, and [fn]to hinder it.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation and footnotes)

4:8 Hebr. to make an errour to it.

Bshps And conspired all together to come and fight against Hierusalem, and to make an hinderaunce therin.
(And conspired all together to come and fight against Yerusalem, and to make an hindrance therein.)

Gnva And conspired all together to come and to fight against Ierusalem, and to hinder them.
(And conspired all together to come and to fight against Yerusalem, and to hinder them.)

Cvdl and cospyred all together, to come and fight against Ierusalem, & to make an hinderaunce therin.
(and conspired all together, to come and fight against Yerusalem, and to make an hindrance therein.)

Wycl And alle weren gaderid togidere to come and fiyte ayens Jerusalem, and to caste tresouns.
(And all were gathered together to come and fight against Yerusalem, and to cast/threw treasons.)

Luth (NEH 4:2) Und machten allesamt einen Bund zu Haufen, daß sie kämen und stritten wider Jerusalem und machten drin einen Irrtum.
(And make all_of_them a federation/agreement to/for heap/pile(n), that they/she/them come and argued/fought against Jerusalem and make within a error.)

ClVg Et congregati sunt omnes pariter ut venirent, et pugnarent contra Jerusalem, et molirentur insidias.
(And gathered_together are everyone as_well as they_would_come, and they_would_fight on_the_contrary Yerusalem, and they_would_struggle ambush.)

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

לְ⁠הִלָּחֵ֣ם בִּ⁠ירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם

(Some words not found in UHB: and,they_conspired of_them_of,all together to,come to,wage_war against,Jerusalem and,to,make to=him/it trouble )

Here, Jerusalem refers to the people who live there. These enemies were not coming to fight against the walls and buildings. Nehemiah is describing the people of Jerusalem by reference to something associated with them, the city where they live. Alternate translation: [to fight against the people of Jerusalem]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

וְ⁠לַ⁠עֲשׂ֥וֹת ל֖⁠וֹ תּוֹעָֽה

and,to,make to=him/it trouble

The abstract noun confusion refers to the way these enemies hoped that their attack would make the people of Jerusalem not know what to do. The people might disagree among themselves about whether they should keep working on the wall or whether they should discontinue the work to appease the attackers. They might also disagree about how to defend themselves. you could translate the idea behind the term “confusion” with adjectives such as “confused” and “divided.” Alternate translation: [They wanted to make the people inside the city confused and divided.]

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