Nehemiah 4:16 Cross References - Thomson

¹⁶ And from that day one half of them who had been drawn off carried on the work, and the other half was kept ready with spears and shields, and bows and breast plates; and the chiefs were behind all the house of Juda

²³ Now I myself mounted guard, and the men on duty attended me, and not a man of us put off our clothes.

¹⁵ those daily allowances with which they who were before me had loaded them, and which they had exacted from them in bread and wine, to the amount at least of forty didrachms of silver. They indeed who had been displaced, tyrannised over the people; but as for me I did not do so; because I feared God. ¹⁶ Even in the work of the wall, I did not domineer over them; nor did I purchase a field: and all who were employed with me there in the work,

⁶ Mine eyes have been on the faithful of the land; that they might dwell with me. He who walked in a perfect way, hath been employed in my service.