RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

that I have done for this people.
6 Now it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Toviyah,
and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies,
heard that I had built the wall, and that there was no
breach left in it, though at that time I had not set up the
doors upon the gates;
2 That Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, Come,
let us meet together in one of the villages in the plain of
Ono. But they thought to do me evil.
3 And I sent messengers to them, saying, I am doing a
great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the
work cease, while I leave it, and come down to you?
4 Yet they sent to me four times in this manner; and I
answered them the same way.
5 Then Sanballat sent his eved to me in like manner the
fifth time with an open letter in his hand;
6 In which was written, It is reported among the nations,
and Gashmu says it, that you and the Yahudim think to
rebel: for which cause you build the wall that you may be
their melech, according to these words.
7 And you have also appointed neviim to proclaim about
you at Yahrushalayim, saying, There is a melech in
Yahudah: and now shall it be reported to the melech
according to these words. Come now therefore, and let us
take counsel together.
8 Then I sent to him, saying, There are no such things
done as you have said, but you are creating them out of
your own lev.
9 For they all made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be
weakened from the work, that it will not be finished. Now
therefore, O Elohim, strengthen my hands.
10 Afterward I came to the bayit of Shemayah the son of
Delayah the son of Mehetav-El, who was restrained; and
he said, Let us meet together in the Bayit of Elohim,
within the Hekal, and let us shut the doors of the Hekal:
for they will come to slay you; yes, in the night will they
come to slay you.
11 And I said, Should such a man as I flee? And who is
there, that, being as I am, would go into the Hekal to save
his chayim? I will not go in.
12 And, see, I discerned that Elohim had not sent him; but
that he pronounced this prophecy against me: for Toviyah
and Sanballat had hired him.
13 Therefore he was hired, that I should be afraid, and do
so, and sin, and that they might have a matter for an evil
report, that they might reproach me.
14 My Elohim, think upon Toviyah and Sanballat
according to these their works, and on the niviyah
Noadyah, and the rest of the neviim, that would have put
me in fear.
15 So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of the
month Elul, in fifty-two days.
16 And it came to pass, that when all our enemies heard
about it, and all the heathen that were around us saw these
things, they were much cast down in their own eyes: for
they perceived that this work was the work of our Elohim.
17 And in those days the nobles of Yahudah sent many
letters to Toviyah, and the letters of Toviyah came to
them.
18 For there were many in Yahudah loyal to him, because
he was the son-in-law of Shechanyah the son of Arah; and
his son Yehohanan had married the daughter of
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Meshullam the son of Berechyah.
19 Also they reported his tov deeds before me, and
uttered my words to him. And Toviyah sent letters to put
me in fear.
Now it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I
had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers and the singers
and the Lewiym were appointed,
2 That I gave my brothers Hanani, and Hananyah the
head of the palace, authority over Yahrushalayim: for he
was a faithful man, and feared Elohim above most.
3 And I said to them, Let not the gates of Yahrushalayim
be opened until the sun is hot; and while they stand by, let
them shut the doors, and bolt them: and appoint guards of
the inhabitants of Yahrushalayim, every one in his watch,
and every one in front of his bayit.
4 Now the city was large and great: but the people inside
were few, and the houses were not built.
5 And my Elohim put into my lev to gather together the
nobles, and the heads, and the people, that they might be
counted by genealogy. And I found a register of the
genealogy of those who came up first, and found all that
was written in them,
6 These are the children of the province, that went up out
of the captivity, of those that had been carried away,
whom Nevuchadnetzar the melech of Bavel had carried
away, and had returned to Yahrushalayim and to
Yahudah, every one to his city;
7 Who came with Zerubbavel, Yeshua, Nechemyah,
Azaryah, Raamayah, Nachamani, Mordechai-Bilshan,
Mitspereth, Bigvai, Nechum, Baanah. The numbers, of
the men of the people of Yisrael 4186 7
was this;
8 The children of Parosh, two thousand one hundred
seventy two.
9 The children of Shephatyah, three hundred seventy two.
10 The children of Arah, six hundred fifty two.
11 The children of Pahath-Moav, of the children of
Yeshua and Yoav, two thousand eight hundred eighteen.
12 The children of Eylam, a thousand two hundred fifty
four.
13 The children of Zattu, eight hundred forty five.
14 The children of Zacchai, seven hundred sixty.
15 The children of Binnui, six hundred forty eight.
16 The children of Bevai, six hundred twenty eight.
17 The children of Azgad, two thousand three hundred
twenty two.
18 The children of Adonikam, six hundred sixty seven.
19 The children of Bigvai, two thousand sixty seven.
20 The children of Adin, six hundred fifty five.
21 The children of Ater of Hizqiyahu, ninety-eight.
22 The children of Hashum, three hundred twenty eight.
23 The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty four.
24 The children of Hariph, one hundred twelve.
25 The children of Giveon, ninety-five.
26 The men of Beth-Lechem and Netophah, one hundred
eighty eight.
27 The men of Anathoth, one hundred twenty eight.
28 The men of Beth-Azmaveth, forty-two.
29 The men of Kiryath-Yearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth,
seven hundred forty three.
30 The men of Ramah and Geva, six hundred twenty one.
31 The men of Michmas, one hundred twenty two.
32 The men of Beth-El and Ai, one hundred twenty three.