20Once or twice the merchants and sellers of all kinds of goods spent the night outside Jerusalem.
20Once or twice the merchants and sellers of all kinds of goods spent the night outside Jerusalem.
17 I rebuked the nobles of Judah and said to them, "What is this wicked thing you are doing-desecrating the Sabbath day?
18 Didn't your forefathers do the same things, so that our God brought all this calamity upon us and upon this city? Now you are stirring up more wrath against Israel by desecrating the Sabbath."
19 When evening shadows fell on the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I ordered the doors to be shut and not opened until the Sabbath was over. I stationed some of my own men at the gates so that no load could be brought in on the Sabbath day.
20 Once or twice the merchants and sellers of all kinds of goods spent the night outside Jerusalem.
21 But I warned them and said, "Why do you spend the night by the wall? If you do this again, I will lay hands on you." From that time on they no longer came on the Sabbath.
22 Then I commanded the Levites to purify themselves and go and guard the gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy. Remember me for this also, O my God, and show mercy to me according to your great love.
13:20So the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged without Jerusalem once or twice.
13:20So the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged without Jerusalem once or twice.
13:20So the merchants, and they that sold all kinds of wares, stayed without Jerusalem once or twice.
13:20So the merchants and sellers of all kind of wares lodged without Jerusalem once or twice.
13:20And the dealers and sellers of all kind of ware passed the night without Jerusalem once or twice.
13:20So the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged without Jerusalem once or twice.
13:20So the merchants and sellers of all kind of wares lodged without Jerusalem once or twice.
13:20So the merchants and sellers of all kinds of wares lodged outside of Jerusalem once or twice.
13:20And they lodge — the merchants and sellers of all ware — at the outside of Jerusalem, once or twice,