18. For every one of the builders was girded with a sword about his reins. And they built, and sounded with a trumpet by me.
19. And I said to the nobles, and to the magistrates, and to the rest of the common people: The work is great and wide, and we are separated on the wall one far from another:
20. In what place soever you shall hear the sound of the trumpet, run all thither unto us: our God will fight for us.
21. And let us do the work: and let one half of us hold our spears from the rising of the morning, till the stars appear.
22. At that time also I said to the people: Let every one with his servant stay in the midst of Jerusalem, and let us take our turns in the night, and by day, to work.
23. Now I and my brethren, and my servants, and the watchmen that followed me, did not put off our clothes: only every man stripped himself when he was to be washed.