Nehemiah 4:21

So we did the work. Half of the people held the spears from the rising of the morning until the stars appeared.

World English Bible

In The King James Version

So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.

In Context

20Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally there to us. Our God will fight for us.”

22Likewise at the same time I said to the people, “Let everyone with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and may labor in the day.”

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 15:10But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Galatians 6:9Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season if we don’t give up.

Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 4:17-23

The Precautions of Nehemiah. ( b. c. 445.) 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. 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. 18 For the builders, every one had his sword girded by… Read the whole commentary →

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