I set in the lower places behind the wall in exposed places, I even set the people, according to their families, with their swords, their spears and their bows.

And from that time forth the half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held the spears, and the shields, and the bows, and the corslets; and the captains were behind all the house of Judah.

And we laboured in the work; and half of them held the spears from the rising of the dawn till the stars appeared.