Nehemiah 13:19-21

Amplified Bible

¹⁹ Now when it began to get dark at the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath [began], I commanded that the doors be shut and not be opened until after the Sabbath. Then I stationed some of my servants at the gates so that no load [of merchandise] would enter [Jerusalem] on the Sabbath day. ²⁰ So once or twice the merchants and sellers of every kind of merchandise spent the night outside Jerusalem. ²¹ But I warned them, saying, “Why do you spend the night by the wall? If you do so again, I will ^[a]use force against you.” From that time on, they did not come on the Sabbath.