Nehemiah 4:19

19 I told the people and their officials and leaders, "The work is spread out over such a distance that we are widely separated from one another on the wall.

Nehemiah 4:19 Meaning and Commentary

Nehemiah 4:19

And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest
of the people (See Gill on Nehemiah 4:14),

the work is great and large;
the building of the wall all around the city of Jerusalem:

and we are separated upon the wall one far from another;
some at work on one part of it, and some at another, so that the distance between one another, at least in the further part, was very considerable.

Nehemiah 4:19 In-Context

17 who were rebuilding the wall. Even those who carried building materials worked with one hand and kept a weapon in the other,

18 and everyone who was building kept a sword strapped to their waist. The man who was to sound the alarm on the bugle stayed with me.

19 I told the people and their officials and leaders, "The work is spread out over such a distance that we are widely separated from one another on the wall.

20 If you hear the bugle, gather around me. Our God will fight for us."

21 So every day, from dawn until the stars came out at night, half of us worked on the wall, while the other half stood guard with spears.