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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,
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And conspired all of them together to come
and
to fight
against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.
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Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a
watch against them day and night, because of them.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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For the builders, every one had his
sword girded by his side, and
so
builded. And he that sounded the trumpet
was
by me.
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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.
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In what place
therefore
ye
hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither unto us: our God shall fight for us.
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So we laboured
in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.
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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.
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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.
CHAPTER 5
And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
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For
there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters,
are
many: therefore we take up corn
for
them,
that we may eat, and live.
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Some
also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands,
vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.
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There were also that said,
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