Nehemiah 4:17-19

American Standard Version

¹⁷ They that builded the wall and they that bare burdens laded themselves; every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other held his weapon; ¹⁸ and the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded. And he that sounded the trumpet was by me. ¹⁹ And I said unto the nobles, and to the ^[a]rulers and to the rest of the people, The work is great and large, and we are separated upon the wall, one far from another: