^{9 Ref} But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.

^{10 Ref} Judah 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.

^{11 Ref} Our 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.

^{12 Ref} It happened that when the Jews who lived by them came, they said to us ten times from all places, You must return to us.

^{13 Ref} Therefore 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.