and said unto the king, "If it please the king, let him give me letters to the captains beyond the water, that they may convey me over, till I come into Judah:

And our adversaries thought, "They shall not know, neither see, till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and hinder the work."

and we will be laboring in the work." And the half part of them held the spears from the morning spring, till the stars came forth.

And Hathirsatha said unto them that they should not eat of the most holy, till there came up a Priest with light and perfectness.

And it fortuned, that when the ports of Jerusalem began to be dark in the evening before the Sabbath, I commanded to shut the gates, and charged that they should not be opened till after the Sabbath: and some of my servants set I at the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the Sabbath day.