Nehemiah 13:17-19

Legacy Standard Bible

¹⁷ Then ^(A)I contended with the nobles of Judah and said to them, “What is this evil thing you are doing, even profaning the sabbath day? ^18 (B)Did not your fathers do the same, so our God brought on us and on this city all this calamity? Yet you are adding to His anger on Israel by profaning the sabbath.”

^19 (C)Now it happened that just as it grew dark at the gates of Jerusalem before the sabbath, I said the word, and the doors were shut. Then I said that they should not open them until after the sabbath. Then I had some of my young men stand at the gates so that no load would enter on the sabbath day.