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Nehemiah says, "we prayed to our God" and set a guard "day and night" because of the threat Nehemiah 4:9. He also stationed people by families with swords, spears, and bows Nehemiah 4:13.
9But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
10Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.
11Our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, until we come into the midst of them, and kill them, and cause the work to cease.
12It happened that when the Jews who lived by them came, they said to us ten times from all places, You must return to us.
13Therefore set I in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in the open places, I set [there] the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.