half of them held , 16_NEH_04:16 And it came to pass from that time forth, [that] the half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the habergeons; and the rulers [were] behind all the house of Judah. , half of them held , 16_NEH_04:21 So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared. ,