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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