5. Response of the

people call and jeers of

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the

their foes

(17-20)

6.

Builders of the

north

ern

wall and

gate

(31, 2)

7.

wall

no man what my God had put into my heart to do for Jerusalem, neither was there any beast with me, except the beast upon which I rode. And I went out by night through the Valley Gate, toward the Dragon's Well and to the Dung Gate, and investigated carefully the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and where its gates had been destroyed by fire. Then I went on to the Fountain Gate and to the King's Pool, but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass. Then I went up in the night by the Brook Kidron and investigated carefully the wall; then I turned back and entered by the Valley Gate, and so returned. And the rulers did not know where 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 who did the work.

Then I said to them, 'You see the bad condition in which we are, how Jerusalem lies in ruins and its gates are destroyed by fire. Come and let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more an object of reproach.' And I told them of the hand of my God, which had kindly cared for me, as also of the king's words that he had spoken to me. And they said, 'Let us rise up and build.' So they strengthened their hands for the good work. But when Sanballat, the Horonite, and Tobiah, the Ammonite slave, and Geshem the Arabian heard it, they jeered at us and despised us, and said, 'What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?' Then I answered and said to them, 'The God of heaven, he will give us success, for we his servants will proceed to build; but you shall have no portion nor right nor memorial in Jerusalem.'

Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his kinsmen the priests and built the Sheep Gate; they laid its beams and set up the doors, even to the Tower of the Hundred, and to the Tower of Hananel. And next to him the men of Jericho built. And next to them Zaccur the son of Imri built.

And the Fish Gate the sons of Hassenaah built; they North- laid its beams, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars. western And next to them Meremoth and Meshullam and Zadok and the Tekoites repaired the wall; but their nobles did not bend their necks in the service of their lord.

and

gate (3-5)

ern wall (6-12)

And the Old Gate Joida repaired; they laid its beams, 8.Westand set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars. And next to them Melatiah the Gibeonite and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon and of Mizpah, which belongs to the jurisdiction of the governor of the province beyond the River, repaired. Next to him Uzziel, one of the goldsmiths, repaired. And next to him Hananiah, one of those who prepare sweet ointments, repaired. And they fortified Jerusalem even to the broad wall. And next to them Rephaiah, the ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, repaired. And next to them Jedaiah repaired opposite his house. And next to him Hattush and Malchijah and Hasshub repaired another section, even to the Tower of the Furnaces. And next to him Shallum, the ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, together with its dependencies, repaired.

South

ern

and

The Valley Gate Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah 9. repaired; they built it, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and also built a thousand cubits of the wall to wall the Dung Gate. And the Dung Gate Malchijah, the ruler gates (13, 14) of the district of Beth-haccherem, together with his sons, repaired.

South

and

(15-27)

And the Fountain Gate Shallun, the ruler of the district 10. of Mizpah, repaired; and he built it, and covered it, and set eastern up its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and he also built the wall wall of the Pool of Siloam by the King's Garden, even to gates the stairs that go down from the city of David. After him Nehemiah, the ruler of half the district of Bethzur, repaired to the place opposite the Sepulchres of David, even to the pool that was made and to the House of the Warriors. After him Rehum the son of Bani repaired. Next to him Hashabiah, the ruler of half the district of Keilah, repaired for his district. After him their kinsmen Bennui, the ruler of half the district of Keilah, repaired. And next to him Ezer, the ruler of Mizpah, repaired another section opposite the ascent to the armory at the bend in the wall. After him Baruch repaired from the bend in the wall to the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest. After him Meremoth repaired another section, from the entrance to the house of Eliashib even to the end of the house of Eliashib. And after him the priests, the men of the Plain of the

11.

Eastern and

eastern

wall and

gates

(28-32)

Jordan, repaired. After them Benjamin and Hasshub re-
paired opposite their house. After them Azariah repaired
beside his own house. After him Binnui repaired another
section, from the house of Azariah to the bend in the wall
and to the corner. After him Palal repaired opposite the
bend and the upper tower that stands out from the royal
palace of the king, which is toward the court of the guard.
After him Pedaiah repaired, to the place opposite the Water
Gate toward the east and the tower that stands out. After
him the Tekoites repaired another section, opposite the great
tower that stands out and to the wall of Ophel. And the
temple servants dwelt in Ophel.

Above the Horse Gate the priests repaired, each one opposite his own house. After them Zadok the son of Immer north- repaired opposite his own house. After him Shemaiah the son of Shechaniah, the keeper of the East Gate, repaired. After him Hananiah the son of Shelemiah and Hanum the sixth son of Zalaph repaired another section. After him Meshullam the son of Berschiah repaired opposite his chamber. After him Malchijah, one of the goldsmiths, repaired as far as the house of the temple servants and of the merchants, opposite the Gate of the Watch Tower and to the ascent of the corner. And between the ascent of the corner and the Sheep Gate the goldsmiths and the merchants repaired.

12.

Taunts

foes of

Jewish

com

(41-5)

Now when Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the of the wall, his anger was aroused and he was very indignant, heathen and mocked the Jews. And he spoke before his kinsmen the and the army of Samaria and said, 'What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they leave it to God? Will they sacrimunity fice? Will they complete it in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, although they are burned? Now Tobiah the Ammonite was with him, and he said, 'Even that which they are building, if a fox should go up on it, he would break down their stone wall!' Hear, O our God-for we are despised-and turn back their reproach upon their own head and give them up as an object of spoil in a land of captivity, and cover not their iniquity and let not their sin be blotted out from thy sight, for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders.