Nehemiah 4:21

And we are working in the business, and half of them are keeping hold of the spears, from the going up of the dawn till the coming forth of the stars.

Young's Literal Translation

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

20in the place that ye hear the voice of the trumpet thither ye are gathered unto us; our God doth fight for us.'

22Also, at that time I said to the people, 'Let each with his servant lodge in the midst of Jerusalem, and they have been to us by night a guard, and by day [for] the work:'

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 15:10and by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace that [is] towards me came not in vain, but more abundantly than they all did I labour, yet not I, but the grace of God that [is] with me;

Galatians 6:9and in the doing good we may not be faint-hearted, for at the proper time we shall reap — not desponding;

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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