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1:1 The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to
 pass in the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in
 Shushan the fortress,
1:2 that Hanani, one of my brethren, came, he and [certain] men
 of Judah. And I asked them concerning the Jews that had
 escaped, who were left of the captivity, and concerning
 Jerusalem.
1:3 And they said to me, Those who remain, that are left of the
 captivity there in the province, are in great affliction and
 reproach; and the wall of Jerusalem is in ruins, and its gates
 are burned with fire.
1:4 And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat
 and wept, and mourned for days, and fasted, and prayed before
 the God of the heavens,
1:5 and said, I beseech thee, Jehovah, God of the heavens, the
 great and terrible ∙God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for
 them that love him and keep his commandments.
1:6 Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, to hear
 the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee at this
 time, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants,
 confessing the sins of the children of Israel, which we have
 sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned.
1:7 We have acted very perversely against thee, and have not
 kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances
 that thou commandedst thy servant Moses.
1:8 Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy
 servant Moses, saying, If ye act unfaithfully, I will scatter
 you among the peoples;
1:9 but if ye return to me, and keep my commandments and do
 them, though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part
 of the heavens, yet will I gather them from thence, and will
 bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name
 there.
1:10 And they are thy servants and thy people, whom thou hast
 redeemed by thy great power and by thy strong hand.
1:11 O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to
 the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants
 who delight to fear thy name; and prosper, I pray thee, thy
 servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.
 Now I was the king's cupbearer.
2:1 And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth
 year of Artaxerxes the king, [that] wine was before him, and I
 took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now, I had never been
 sad in his presence.
2:2 And the king said to me, Why is thy face sad, seeing thou
 art not sick? this is nothing else but sadness of heart. And I
 was very sore afraid.
2:3 And I said to the king, Let the king live for ever! Why
 should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of
 my fathers' sepulchres, lies waste, and its gates are consumed
 with fire?
2:4 And the king said to me, For what dost thou make request? So
 I prayed to the God of the heavens.
2:5 And I said to the king, If it please the king, and if thy
 servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send
 me to Judah, to the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may
 build it.
2:6 And the king said to me -- the queen also sitting by him, --
 For how long shall thy journey be, and when wilt thou return?
 And it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.
2:7 And I said to the king, If it please the king, let letters
 be given me to the governors beyond the river, that they may
 set me forward till I come into Judah;
2:8 and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that
 he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace
 which [appertains] to the house, and for the wall of the city,
 and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted
 me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.
2:9 And I came to the governors beyond the river, and gave them
 the king's letters. Now the king had sent captains of a force
 and horsemen with me.
2:10 And when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobijah the servant,
 the Ammonite, heard [of it], it grieved them exceedingly that
 there had come a man to seek the welfare of the children of
 Israel.
2:11 And I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.
2:12 And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me -- but
 I told no man what my God had put in my heart to do for
 Jerusalem -- and there was no beast with me, except the beast
 that I rode upon.
2:13 And I went out by night by the valley-gate, even toward the
 jackal-fountain, and to the dung-gate; and I viewed the walls
 of Jerusalem, which were in ruins, and its gates were consumed
 with fire.
2:14 And I went on to the fountain-gate, and to the king's pool;
 and there was no place for the beast under me to pass.
2:15 And I went up in the night through the valley, and viewed
 the wall, and turned back, and entered by the valley-gate and
 returned.
2:16 And the rulers did not know whither I went or what I did,
 for I had not 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.
2:17 And I said to them, Ye see the distress that we are in,
 that Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire.
 Come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no
 more a reproach.
2:18 And I told them of the hand of my God which had been good
 upon me; as also of the king's words which he had said unto me.
 And they said, Let us rise up and build. And they strengthened
 their hands for the good [work].
2:19 And Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobijah the servant, the
 Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it; and they mocked us
 and despised us, and said, What is this thing which ye do? will
 ye rebel against the king?
2:20 And I answered them, and said to them, The God of the
 heavens, he will prosper us, and we his servants will arise and
 build; but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial in
 Jerusalem.
3:1 And Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the
 priests, and they built the sheep-gate. They hallowed it, and
 set up its doors; and they hallowed it even to the tower of
 Meah, to the tower of Hananeel.
3:2 And next to them built the men of Jericho. And next to them
 built Zaccur the son of Imri.
3:3 And the fish-gate did the sons of Senaah build: they laid
 its beams, and set up its doors, its locks and its bars.
3:4 And next to them repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah, the
 son of Koz. And next to them repaired Meshullam the son of
 Berechiah, the son of Meshezabeel. And next to them repaired
 Zadok the son of Baana.
3:5 And next to them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles put
 not their necks to the work of their Lord.
3:6 And the gate of the old [wall] repaired Jehoiada the son of
 Paseah, and Meshullam the son of Besodiah; they laid its beams,
 and set up its doors, and its locks, and its bars.
3:7 And next to them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon
 the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon and of Mizpah, to the seat
 of the governor on this side the river.
3:8 Next to them repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, of the
 goldsmiths; and next to him repaired Hananiah of the perfumers,
 and they left Jerusalem [in its state] as far as the broad
 wall.
3:9 And next to them repaired Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler
 of the half part of Jerusalem.
3:10 And next to them repaired Jedaiah the son of Harumaph, even
 over against his house. And next to him repaired Hattush the
 son of Hashabniah.
3:11 Malchijah the son of Harim and Hasshub the son of
 Pahath-Moab repaired a second piece, and the tower of the
 furnaces.
3:12 And next to them repaired Shallum the son of Hallohesh, the
 ruler of the half part of Jerusalem, he and his daughters.
3:13 The valley-gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of
 Zanoah; they built it, and set up its doors, its locks and its
 bars, and a thousand cubits of the wall as far as the
 dung-gate.
3:14 And the dung-gate repaired Malchijah the son of Rechab, the
 chief of the district of Beth-haccerem; he built it, and set up
 its doors, its locks and its bars.
3:15 And the fountain-gate repaired Shallun the son of Colhozeh,
 the chief of the district of