And he spakebefore his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do thesefeebleJews? willtheyfortifythemselves? willtheysacrifice? willtheymake an end in a day? willtheyrevive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbishwhich are burned?
But it came to pass, thatwhenSanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heardthat the walls of Jerusalemweremade up, and that the breachesbegan to be stopped, thentheywereverywroth,
And it came to pass, thatwhen the Jewswhichdwelt by themcame, theysaidunto us ten times, From all placeswhence ye shallreturnunto us theywill be upon you.
Therefore set I in the lowerplacesbehind the wall, and on the higherplaces, I even set the peopleaftertheirfamilieswiththeirswords, theirspears, and theirbows.
And I looked, and rose up, and saidunto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them: remember the Lord, which is great and terrible, and fight for yourbrethren, yoursons, and yourdaughters, yourwives, and yourhouses.
And it came to pass, when our enemiesheardthat it was knownunto us, and God had broughttheircounsel to nought, that we returned all of us to the wall, every one unto his work.
And it came to passfromthattimeforth, that the half of my servantswrought in the work, and the otherhalf of themheldboth the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the habergeons; and the rulerswerebehind all the house of Judah.
Theywhichbuilded on the wall, and theythatbareburdens, withthosethatladed, every one with one of his handswrought in the work, and with the otherhandheld a weapon.
And I saidunto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, The work is great and large, and we are separatedupon the wall, one far fromanother.
Likewise at the sametimesaid I unto the people, Let every one with his servantlodgewithinJerusalem, that in the nightthey may be a guard to us, and labour on the day.
So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guardwhichfollowed me, none of us put off our clothes, savingthatevery one put them off for washing.