4:13 So I stationed people at the lower places behind the wall in the exposed places.1 I stationed the people by families, with their swords, spears, and bows.
[4:13]1tc The MT preserves the anomalous Kethib form צְחִחִיִּים (tsÿkhikhiyyim); the Qere reads צְחִיחִים (tsÿkhikhim) which is preferred (BDB 850 s.v. צָהִיחַ; HALOT 1018 s.v. *צָהִיחַ).