20. In whatever place you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally to us there. Our God will fight for us.
21. So we labored at the work while half of them held the spears from dawn until the stars came out.
22. At that time also I said to the people, Let everyone with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that at night they may be a guard to us and a laborer during the day.
23. So none of us–I, my kinsmen, my servants, nor the men of the guard who followed me–took off our clothes; each kept his weapon [in his hand for days].