When all our enemies heard and all the nations who were around us saw this, they were greatly disheartened. They knew that this work had been accomplished with the help of our God.

"You saw the affliction of our ancestors in Egypt, and you heard their cry at the Red Sea.

In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath, bringing in heaps of grain and loading them onto donkeys, along with wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads, and bringing them to Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I warned them on the day that they sold these provisions.

Also in those days I saw the men of Judah who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.