Nehemiah 4:15-23 - Sword And Trowel
15 And it will be that when our enemies heard that it was known to us, and God will disperse their counsel, and we shall turn back all of us to the wall, each to his work. 16 And it will be from that day the half of my young men doing in the work, and half of them holding fast and the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the coats of mail; and the chiefs behind every house of Judah. 17 They building upon the wall, and they bearing in the burden, they loading with one of his hands doing in the work, and one holding fast the weapon. 18 And the builders, a man his sword being girded upon his loins, and building. And he striking upon the trumpet near me. 19 And saying to the nobles and to the prefects and to the rest of the people, The work much and broad, and we being scattered upon the wall, far off a man from his brother. 20 In the place which ye shall hear the voice of the trumpet there ye shall gather together to us; our God shall war for us. 21 And we doing in the work: and half of them holding fast upon the spears from the ascending of the dawn even till the coming forth of the stars. 22 Also in that time I said to the people, A man and his youth shall lodge in the midst of Jerusalem; and they were watching for us in the night, and work in the day. 23 And not I and my brethren and my young men, and the men of the watch which were after me, we not putting off our garments; a man his weapon for water.