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## Nehemiah 4:21-23 in Context (Verses 18–23 KJV)
 
 [18 ](/kjv/nehemiah/4/18) For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and *so* builded. And he that sounded the trumpet *was* by me.*
 
 [19 ](/kjv/nehemiah/4/19) ¶ And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, The work *is* great and large, and we are separated upon the wall, one far from another.
 
 [20 ](/kjv/nehemiah/4/20) In what place *therefore* ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither unto us: our God shall fight for us.
 
 [21 ](/kjv/nehemiah/4/21) So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.
 
 [22 ](/kjv/nehemiah/4/22) Likewise at the same time said I unto the people, Let every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and labour on the day.
 
 [23 ](/kjv/nehemiah/4/23) So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of us put off our clothes, *saving that* every one put them off for washing.*
 
[Nehemiah 3](/kjv/nehemiah/3) [Nehemiah 5](/kjv/nehemiah/5)

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