Nehemiah 4:22

New English Translation

At that time I instructed the people, “Let every man and his coworker spend the night in Jerusalem and let them be guards for us by night and workers by day.

Cross References

Nehemiah 4:21

So we worked on, with half holding spears, from dawn till dusk.

Nehemiah 4:23

We did not change clothes – not I, nor my relatives, nor my workers, nor the watchmen who were with me. Each had his weapon, even when getting a drink of water.