Nehemiah 4:17-19

21st Century King James Version

¹⁷ Those who built on the wall and those who bore burdens with those who loaded — every one with one of his hands wrought in the work and with the other hand held a weapon.

¹⁸ For the builders, every one, had his sword girded by his side, and so built. And he that sounded the trumpet was by me.

¹⁹ And I said unto the nobles and to the 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.