¹⁶ From that day on, half of my servants worked on construction, and half held the spears, shields, bows, and ^(A)coats of mail. And the leaders stood behind the whole house of Judah,

²³ So neither I nor my brothers nor my servants nor the men of the guard who followed me, none of us took off our clothes; ^(A)each kept his weapon at his right hand.^[a]