Or, were to do, or should do, i.e. whom he intended to employ in the work here following, of building the walls.
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Nehemiah 2:16
16 And the rulers knew not whither I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that did the work.