George Leo Haydock, on Neh 4:13

“I set the people in the place behind the wall round about in order, with their swords, and spears, and bows.”

“Place. Hebrew adds, “below.” — Round. Hebrew, “on the hills.” (Haydock) — To remove the apparent contradiction, (Calmet) Protestants supply, “ and on the higher places.” Septuagint, “in lurking holes,” skepeinois .”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.