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. 
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.