Nehemiah 4:21-23

Darby Translation

²¹ And we laboured in the work; and half of them held the spears from the rising of the dawn till the stars appeared.

²² Likewise at the same time I said to the people, Let every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and [be for] labour in the day.

²³ And neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard that followed me, none of us put off our garments: every one had his weapon on his right side.