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NE-4:1 But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we
builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and
mocked the Jews.
NE-4:2 And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria,
and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify
themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day?
will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish
which are burned?
NE-4:3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite [was] by him, and he said, Even
that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down
their stone wall.
NE-4:4 Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their
reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the
land of captivity:
NE-4:5 And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be
blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked [thee] to
anger before the builders.
NE-4:6 So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined
together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to
work.
NE-4:7 But it came to pass, [that] when Sanballat, and Tobiah,
and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard
that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, [and] that the
breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,
NE-4:8 And conspired all of them together to come [and] to fight
against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.
NE-4:9 Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a
watch against them day and night, because of them.
NE-4:10 And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens
is decayed, and [there is] much rubbish; so that we are not able
to build the wall.
NE-4:11 And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither
see, till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and
cause the work to cease.
NE-4:12 And it came to pass, that when the Jews which dwelt by
them came, they said unto us ten times, From all places whence
ye shall return unto us [they will be upon you].
NE-4:13 Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall,
[and] on the higher places, I even set the people after their
families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
NE-4:14 And I looked, and rose up, and said unto 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 your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your
wives, and your houses.
NE-4:15 And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was
known unto us, and God had brought their counsel to nought, that
we returned all of us to the wall, every one unto his work.
NE-4:16 And it came to pass from that time forth, [that] the
half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of
them held both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the
habergeons; and the rulers [were] behind all the house of Judah.
NE-4:17 They which builded on the wall, and they that bare
burdens, with those that laded, [every one] with one of his
hands wrought in the work, and with the other [hand] held a
weapon.
NE-4:18 For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his
side, and [so] builded. And he that sounded the trumpet [was] by
me.
NE-4:19 And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to
the rest of the people, The work [is] great and large, and we
are separated upon the wall, one far from another.
NE-4:20 In what place [therefore] ye hear the sound of the
trumpet, resort ye thither unto us: our God shall fight for us.
NE-4:21 So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the
spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.
NE-4:22 Likewise at the same time said I unto the people, Let
every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the
night they may be a guard to us, and labour on the day.
NE-4:23 So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the
men of the guard which followed me, none of us put off our
clothes, [saving that] every one put them off for washing.
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