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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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