Nehemiah 4:11

our adversaries said -adversaries," cf. Ezra 4:1. After mentioning the source of weakness within the walls, Nehemiah describes the danger from without. -Said." He gives, as if in their own words, their secret project of a surprise attack upon Jerusalem, either reporting the information brought by spies or describing by imagination what the intentions of the enemy were.

in the midst among them R.V. Into the midst of them.