Nehemiah 4:18-20

Good News Translation

¹⁸ and everyone who was building kept a sword strapped to their 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 around me. Our God will fight for us.”