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Then the king said vnto me, For what doest thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heauen.

And the king saide vnto mee (the Queene also sitting by him) For how long shall thy iourney bee? and when wilt thou returne? So it pleased the king to send me, and I set him a time.

1611 marginal noteHebr. wife.

So I came to Ierusalem, and was there three dayes.

Then went I vp in the night by the brooke, and viewed the wall, and turned backe, and entred by the gate of the valley, and so returned.

Then I told them of the hand of my God, which was good vpon me; as also the kings wordes that he had spoken vnto me. And they said, Let vs rise vp and builde. So they strengthened their hands for this good worke.

So built we the wall, and all the wall was ioyned together vnto the halfe therof: for the people had a minde to worke.

And Iudah 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.

For the builders, euery one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded: and he that sounded the trumpet was by mee.

1611 marginal noteHeb. on his loynes.

So wee laboured in the worke: and halfe of them held the speares, from the rising of the morning, til the starres appeared.

So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my seruants, nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of vs put off our clothes, sauing that euery one put them off for washing.

1611 marginal noteOr, euery one went with his weapon for water.