Nehemiah 3–4

Then ^aEliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they built the ^bsheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even unto the ^ctower of Meah they sanctified it, unto the ^dtower of Hananeel. ²And next unto him builded ^ethe men of Jericho. And next to them builded ^fZaccur the son of Imri. ³But the ^gfish gate did the sons of ^hHassenaah build, who also ⁱlaid the beams thereof, and ^jset up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof. ⁴And next unto them repaired ^kMeremoth the son of ^kUriah, the son of ^lKoz. And next unto them repaired ^mMeshullam the son of Berechiah, the son of ⁿMeshezabeel. And next unto them repaired ⁿZadok the son of Baana. ⁵And next unto them the ^oTekoites repaired; but their nobles put not their necks to ^pthe work of their Lord. ⁶Moreover the ^qold gate repaired Jehoiada the son of ^rPaseah, and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah; they ⁱlaid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, and the locks thereof, and the bars thereof. ⁷And next unto them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon ^sthe Meronothite, the men of ^tGibeon, and of ^uMizpah, unto the ^xthrone of the governor on this side the river. ⁸Next unto him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, of the ^ygoldsmiths. Next unto him also repaired ^zHananiah the son of one of the ^aapothecaries, and they fortified Jerusalem unto the ^bbroad wall. ⁹And next unto them repaired Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of ^cthe half part of Jerusalem. ¹⁰And next unto them repaired Jedaiah the son of Harumaph, even over against his house. And next unto him repaired ^dHattush the son of ^eHashabniah. ^11fMalchijah the son of ^gHarim, and ^hHashub the son of ⁱPahath-moab, repaired the other piece, and the ^ktower of the furnaces. ¹²And next unto him repaired Shallum the son of ^lHallohesh, the ruler of ^cthe half part of Jerusalem, he and his daughters. ¹³The ^mvalley gate repaired ⁿHanun, and the inhabitants of ^oZanoah; they built it, and ^pset up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and a thousand cubits on the wall unto ^qthe dung gate. ¹⁴But the ^qdung gate repaired ^rMalchiah the son of Rechab, the ruler of part of ^sBeth-haccerem; he built it, and ^pset up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof. ¹⁵But ^tthe gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of ^uCol-hozeh, the ruler of part of ^vMizpah; he built it, and covered it, and ^pset up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and the wall of the pool of ^wSiloah by the ^xking’s garden, and unto ^ythe stairs that go down from the city of David. ¹⁶After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of the half part of ^zBeth-zur, unto the place over against ^athe sepulchres of David, and to the ^bpool that was made, and unto the house of the mighty. ¹⁷After him repaired the Levites, Rehum the son of ^cBani. Next unto him repaired ^dHashabiah, the ruler of the half part of ^eKeilah, in his part. ¹⁸After him repaired their brethren, Bavai the son of ^fHenadad, the ruler of the half part of ^eKeilah. ¹⁹And next to him repaired ^gEzer the son of ^hJeshua, the ruler of ⁱMizpah, another piece over against the going up to ^kthe armoury at ^lthe turning of the wall. ²⁰After him ^mBaruch the son of ⁿZabbai earnestly repaired the other piece, from ^lthe turning of the wall unto the door of the house of ^oEliashib the high priest. ²¹After him repaired ^pMeremoth the son of Urijah the son of Koz another piece, from the door of the house of ^oEliashib even to the end of the house of Eliashib. ²²And after him repaired the priests, the men of ^qthe plain. ²³After him repaired ^rBenjamin and ^sHashub over against their house. After him repaired ^tAzariah the son of ^uMaaseiah the son of Ananiah by his house. ²⁴After him repaired ^wBinnui the son of ^fHenadad another piece, from the house of ^tAzariah unto ^lthe turning of the wall, even unto ^xthe corner. ²⁵Palal the son of Uzai, over against ^lthe turning of the wall, and the tower which lieth out from ^ythe king’s high house, that was by ^zthe court of the prison. After him ^aPedaiah the son of ^bParosh. ²⁶Moreover ^cthe Nethinims dwelt in Ophel, unto the place over against the ^dwater gate toward the east, and the tower that lieth out. ²⁷After them the ^eTekoites repaired another piece, over against the great tower that lieth out, even unto the wall of Ophel. ²⁸From above the ^fhorse gate repaired the priests, every one over against his house. ²⁹After them repaired Zadok the son of ^gImmer over against his house. After him repaired also ^hShemaiah the son of Shechaniah, the keeper of the ⁱeast gate. ³⁰After him repaired ^kHananiah the son of ^lShelemiah, and ^mHanun the sixth son of Zalaph, another piece. After him repaired ⁿMeshullam the son of Berechiah over against his ^ochamber. ³¹After him repaired ^pMalchiah ^qthe goldsmith’s son unto ^rthe place of the Nethinims, and of the ^smerchants, over against the gate ^tMiphkad, and to the going up of the corner. ³²And between the going up of the corner unto the ^usheep gate repaired ^qthe goldsmiths and the merchants.

IV.But it came to pass, ^athat when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and ^bmocked the Jews. ²And he spake before his brethren and the army of ^cSamaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burnt? ³Now ^aTobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if ^da fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall. ^4eHear, O our God; for we are despised: and ^fturn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity: ⁵and ^gcover not their iniquity, and ^hlet not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders. ⁶So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.

⁷But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the ⁱArabians, and the ^jAmmonites, and the ^kAshdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth, ⁸and ^lconspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it. ⁹Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them. ¹⁰And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall. ¹¹And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease. ¹²And it came to pass, that when the Jews which dwelt by ^mthem came, they said unto us ⁿten times, From all places whence ye shall return unto us they will be upon you. ¹³Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows. ¹⁴And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, ^oBe not ye afraid of them: remember the Lord, which is ^pgreat and terrible, and ^qfight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses. ¹⁵And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known unto us, and God had ^rbrought their counsel to nought, that we returned all of us to the wall, every one unto his work. ¹⁶And 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 ^sspears, the shields, and the bows, and the ^shabergeons; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah. ¹⁷They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon. ¹⁸For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded. And he that sounded the trumpet was by me. ¹⁹And ^tI said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, The work is great and large, and we are separated upon the wall, one far from another. ²⁰In what place therefore ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither unto us: ^uour God shall fight for us. ²¹So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from ^xthe rising of the morning till the stars appeared. ²²Likewise at the same time said I unto the people, Let every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and labour on the day. ²³So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of us put off our clothes, saving that every one put them off for washing.

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