Nehemiah 13:16-19
Read Nehemiah 13 in full →16Also men of Tyre were living 1there who brought in fish and all kinds of merchandise, and sold them to the sons of Judah on the sabbath, even in Jerusalem. 17Then aI contended with the nobles of Judah and said to them, “What is this evil thing you are doing, even profaning the sabbath day? 18“aDid 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.”
19aNow 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.