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Chapter 4 For it came to pass,
that when Sanballat heard that we builded

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the wall, he was wroth and took great
indignation, and mocked the Jews.

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And he spake before his brethren and the
army of Samaria, and said, What do these

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feeble Jews?

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Will they fortify themselves?

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Will they sacrifice?

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Will they make an end in a day?

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Will they revive the stones out of the
heaps of the rubbish which are burned?

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Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him,
and he said, Even that which they build,

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if a fox go up, he shall even break down
their stone wall.

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Hear, O our God!

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For we are despised, and turn their
reproach upon their own head, and give

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them for a prey in the land of captivity.

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And cover not their iniquity, and let not
their sin be blotted out from before thee,

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for they have provoked thee to anger
before the builders.

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So built we the wall, and all the wall was
joined together until the half thereof,

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for the people had a mind to work.

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But it came to pass, that when Sanballat,
and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the

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Ammonites, and the Ashtodites heard that
the walls of Jerusalem were made up,

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and that the breaches began to be stopped,
then they were very wroth, and conspired

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all of them together to come and to fight
against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.

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Nevertheless, we made our prayer unto our
God, and set a watch against them day and

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night because of them.

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And Judah said, The strength of the
bearers of burdens is decayed,

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and there is much rubbish, so that we are
not able to build the wall.

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And our adversaries said, They shall not
know, neither see, till we come in the

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midst among them, and slay them,
and cause the work to cease.

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And it came to pass, that when the Jews
which dwelt by them came, they said unto

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us ten times, From all places when she
shall return unto us, they will be upon

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you.

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Therefore set I in the lower places behind
the wall, and on the higher places.

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I even set the people after their families
with their swords, their spears,

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and their bows.

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And I looked, and rose up, and said unto
the nobles, and to the rulers,

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and to the rest of the people,
Be not ye afraid of them.

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Remember the Lord which is great and
terrible, and fight for your brethren,

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your sons, and your daughters,
your wives, and your houses.

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And it came to pass, when our enemies
heard that it was known unto us,

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and God had brought their counsel to
naught, that we returned all of us to the

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wall, every one unto his work.

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And it came to pass from that time forth,
that the half of my servants wrought in

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the work, and the other half of them held
both the spears, the shields, and the

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bows, and the habogens, and the rulers
were behind all the house of Judah.

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They which builded on the wall,
and they that bear burdens, with those

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that laid it, every one with one of his
hands wrought in the work, and with the

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other hand held a weapon.

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For the builders, every one had his sword
girded by his side, and so builded.

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And he that sounded the trumpet was by me.

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And I said unto the nobles, and to the
rulers, and to the rest of the people,

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The work is great and large, and we are
separated upon the wall, one far from

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another.

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In what place, therefore, ye hear the
sound of the trumpet?

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Resort ye thither unto us.

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Our God shall fight for us.

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So we laboured in the work, and half of
them held the spears from the rising of

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the morning till the stars appeared.

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Likewise at the same time said I unto the
people, Let every one with his servant

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lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night
they may be a guard to us, and labour on

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the day.

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So neither I, nor my brethren,
nor my servants, nor the men of the guard

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which followed me, none of us put off our
clothes, saving that every one put them

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off for washing.