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I.  COMBINATION OF PRAYER AND WATCHFULNESS.

II.  COMBINATION OF PRECEPT AND EXAMPLE (vers. 14, 15, 18.)

III.  EVERY BUILDER WAS ALSO A SOLDIER.

IV.  A MUTUAL CO-OPERATION WENT HAND IN HAND WITH PERSONAL WORK AND RESPONSIBILITY.

(J. M. Randall.)

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KJV: But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,

WEB: But it happened that when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, [and] that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very angry;