Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 38 · 1890
The Two Guards, Praying and Watching
Nehemiah 4:9
NEHEMIAH, and the Jews with him, were rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem. Sanballat and others were angry with them, and tried to stop the work. They determined to pounce upon the people on a sudden, and slay them, and so to put an end to what they were doing.