But I, and my brethren, and my keepers, and [my] servants, that were going after me, did not put off our clothes; each man was made naked only to washing.
but rather I subjected myself, and I builded in the work of the wall, and I bought no field, and all my servants were gathered together with me to the work.
I commanded to Hanani, my brother, and to Hananiah, the prince of the house of Jerusalem; for he seemed a soothfast man, and dreading God more than other men did;
But by the grace of God I am that thing that I am; and his grace was not void in me. For I travailed more plenteously than all they; but not I, but the grace of God with me.
Where the chariots were hurled down altogether, and the host of [the] enemies was strangled, there the Lord’s rightwiseness be told out, and his mercy among the strong men of Israel; then the Lord’s people came down to the gates, and got the princehood.
and he went up into the hill of Zalmon with all his people; and with an ax taken, he cut down a bough of a tree, and he bare it, put upon his shoulder, and he said to his fellows, Do ye anon this thing, that ye see me do.