18. and everyone who was building kept a sword strapped to his waist. The man who was to sound the alarm on the bugle stayed with me.
19. I told the people and their officials and leaders, “The work is spread out over such a distance that we are widely separated from one another on the wall.
20. If you hear the bugle, gather round me. Our God will fight for us.”
21. So every day, from dawn until the stars came out at night, half of us worked on the wall, while the other half stood guard with spears.