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1:1 The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to
 pass in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in
 Shushan the palace,
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, The remnant that are left of the
 captivity there in the province [are] in great affliction and
 reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also [is] broken down, and its
 gates are burned with fire.
1:4 And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat
 down and wept, and mourned [certain] days, and fasted, and
 prayed before the God of heaven,
1:5 And said, I beseech thee, O LORD God of heaven, the great
 and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that
 love him and observe his commandments:
1:6 Let thy ear now be attentive, and thy eyes open, that thou
 mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee
 now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants,
 and confess 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 dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept
 the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which
 thou commandedst thy servant Moses.
1:8 Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy
 servant Moses, saying, [If] ye transgress, I will scatter you
 abroad among the nations:
1:9 But [if] ye turn to me, and keep my commandments, and do
 them; though there were of you driven to the uttermost part of
 the heaven, [yet] will I gather them from thence, and will
 bring them to the place that I have chosen to set my name
 there.
1:10 Now these [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 thy ear be attentive to the
 prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who
 desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant
 this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I
 was the king's cup-bearer.
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 not
 [before] been sad in his presence.
2:2 Wherefore the king said to me, Why [is] thy countenance sad,
 seeing thou [art] not sick? this [is] nothing but sorrow of
 heart. Then I was very greatly afraid,
2:3 And 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' sepulchers, [lieth] waste, and its gates are consumed
 with fire?
2:4 Then the king said to me, For what dost thou make request?
 So I prayed to the God of heaven.
2:5 And I said to the king, If it should please the king, and if
 thy servant hath found favor in thy sight, that thou wouldst
 send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers' sepulchers, 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?
 So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.
2:7 Moreover, I said to the king, If it should please the king,
 let letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that
 they may convey me over 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 [appertained] to the house, and for the wall of the city,
 and for the house that I shall enter. And the king granted me,
 according to the good hand of my God upon me.
2:9 Then I came to the governors beyond the river, and gave them
 the king's letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army
 and horsemen with me.
2:10 When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah 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 So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.
2:12 And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me;
 neither told I [any] man what my God had put in my heart to do
 at Jerusalem: neither [was there any] beast with me, save the
 beast that I rode upon.
2:13 And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even
 before the dragon-well, and to the dung-port, and viewed the
 walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and their gates
 were consumed with fire.
2:14 Then I went on to the gate of the fountain, and to the
 king's pool: but [there was] no place for the beast [that was]
 under me to pass.
2:15 Then I went up in the night by the brook, and viewed the
 wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley,
 and [so] returned.
2:16 And the rulers knew not whither 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 that did
 the work.
2:17 Then said I to them, Ye see the distress that we [are] in,
 how Jerusalem [lieth] waste, and its gates are burned with
 fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we
 may be no more a reproach.
2:18 Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon
 me; as also the king's words that he had spoken to me. And they
 said, Let us rise and build. So they strengthened their hands
 for [this] good [work].
2:19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant,
 the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard [it], they laughed
 us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What [is] this thing
 that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?
2:20 Then I answered them, and said to them, The God of heaven,
 he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and
 build: but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in
 Jerusalem.
3:1 Then Eliashib the high priest arose with his brethren the
 priests, and they built the sheep-gate; they sanctified it, and
 set up the doors of it; even to the tower of Meah they
 sanctified it, to the tower of Hananeel.
3:2 And next to him built the men of Jericho. And next to them
 built Zaccur the son of Imri.
3:3 But the fish-gate did the sons of Hassenaah build, who
 [also] 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 Moreover, the old gate repaired Jehoiada the son of Paseah,
 and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah; 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
 throne of the governor on this side of the river.
3:8 Next to him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, of the
 goldsmiths. Next to him also repaired Hananiah the son of [one
 of] the apothecaries, and they fortified Jerusalem to 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 Hashub the son of
 Pahath-moab, repaired the other piece, and the tower of the
 furnaces.
3:12 And next to him repaired Shallum the son of Halohesh, 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 on the wall to the dung-gate.
3:14 But the dung-gate repaired Malchiah the son of Rechab, the
 ruler of part of Beth-haccerem; he built it, and set up its
 doors, its locks, and its bars.
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