20. Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, gather there with us. Our God will fight for us!”
21. So we worked on, with half holding spears, from dawn till dusk.
22. 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.
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.