Nehemiah 4:21-23

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

²¹ So we labored at the work while half of them held the spears from dawn until the stars came out.

²² At that time also I said to the people, Let everyone with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that at night they may be a guard to us and a laborer during the day.

²³ So none of us—I, my kinsmen, my servants, nor the men of the guard who followed me—took off our clothes; each kept his weapon [in his hand for days].