20 Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, come together to us there. Our God will fight for us.”
21 So we labored at the work, and half of them were holding the spears from dawn until the stars came out.
22 At the time I also said to the people, “Let each man and his servant spend the night inside Jerusalem, so that they will be a guard for us in the night and work in the day.”
23 So neither I nor my brothers nor my young men nor the men of the guard who were behind me took off our clothes. Each one kept his weapon even in the water.