So they strengthened
their hands for the good [work].
002:019 But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant,
the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us,
and despised us, and said, What is this thing that you do?
will you rebel against the king?
002:020 Then answered I them, and said to them, The God of heaven,
he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build:
but you have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.
003:001 Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers
the priests, and they built the sheep gate; they sanctified it,
and set up the doors of it; even to the tower of Hammeah they
sanctified it, to the tower of Hananel.
003:002 Next to him built the men of Jericho. Next to them built
Zaccur the son of Imri.
003:003 The fish gate did the sons of Hassenaah build; they laid
the beams of it, and set up the doors of it, the bolts of it,
and the bars of it.
003:004 Next to them repaired Meremoth the son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz.
Next to them repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the son
of Meshezabel. Next to them repaired Zadok the son of Baana.
003:005 Next to them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles didn't
put their necks to the work of their lord.
003:006 The old gate repaired Joiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam
the son of Besodeiah; they laid the beams of it, and set up
the doors of it, and the bolts of it, and the bars of it.
003:007 Next to them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon
the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah,
[that appertained] to the throne of the governor beyond the River.
003:008 Next to him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, goldsmiths.
Next to him repaired Hananiah one of the perfumers, and they
fortified Jerusalem even to the broad wall.
003:009 Next to them repaired Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler
of half the district of Jerusalem.
003:010 Next to them repaired Jedaiah the son of Harumaph, over against
his house. Next to him repaired Hattush the son of Hashabneiah.
003:011 Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hasshub the son of Pahathmoab,
repaired another portion, and the tower of the furnaces.
003:012 Next to him repaired Shallum the son of Hallohesh, the ruler
of half the district of Jerusalem, he and his daughters.
003:013 The valley gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah;
they built it, and set up the doors of it, the bolts of it,
and the bars of it, and one thousand cubits of the wall
to the dung gate.
003:014 The dung gate repaired Malchijah the son of Rechab, the ruler
of the district of Beth Haccherem; he built it, and set up
the doors of it, the bolts of it, and the bars of it.
003:015 The spring gate repaired Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the ruler
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