Nehemiah 4:17-19

Good News Translation

¹⁷ who were rebuilding the wall. Even those who carried building materials worked with one hand and kept a weapon in the other, ¹⁸ and everyone who was building kept a sword strapped to their waist. The man who was to sound the alarm on the bugle stayed with me. ¹⁹ I told the people and their officials and leaders, “The work is spread out over such a distance that we are widely separated from one another on the wall.