“ If you do it again, I will lay hands on you. From that time they no longer came on the sabbath. 22 And I commanded the Levites to purify themselves, and to come and guard the gates, to hallow the sabbath day. For this also, my god, remember me, and have compassion on me by the greatness of your loyalty.
23 Also in those days I saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, from Ammon, and from Moab. 24 And of their children half spoke in the language of Ashdod, and did not know how to speak the Jewish language, but rather the speech of the various peoples. ”

“ And they ate and were filled, and became fat, and delighted in your great goodness. 26 But they were disobedient and rebelled against you, and threw out your law behind them back, and killed your prophets who testified against them, to turn them to you, and they acted with great contempt. 27 And you gave them into the hand of their enemies, who oppressed them, and in the time of their trouble they cried out to you, and you heard them from the sky. And by your great mercies you gave them rescuers, who rescued them from the hand of their enemies. ”

“ Yet among many nations there was no king like him, beloved of his god, and God made him king over all Israel. Yet even he was made to sin by foreign women. 27 Should we then acquiesce as you do all this great evil, transgressing against our god by marrying foreign wives?
28 And one of the sons of Joiada, son of Eliashib the high priest, was the son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite. ”

“ And they rule over our bodies, and over our livestock, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress. 38 And because of all this we made a secure covenant, and write it: our leaders, our Levites, priests seal it. ”

“ Why should the work stop while I leave it and go down to you?
4 And they sent the same message to me four times, and I replied to them in the same way.
5 And Sanballat sent his servant to me a fifth time in the same manner with an open letter in his hand, 6 in which was written, It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu says, that you and the Jews are planning to rebel. That is why you are building the wall. And you are to be their king, and so on. 7 And you have also appointed prophets to speak about you in Jerusalem, saying, There is a king in Judah. ”

“ Both I and my fathers house have sinned. 7 We have surely offended you, and have not kept your commandments, and your statutes, and your decrees which you commanded your servant Moses. 8 Remember, please, the word which you commanded your servant Moses, saying, If you transgress, I will scatter you among the peoples. 9 When you turn to me, and keep my commandments and do them, even if you were expelled to the end of the sky, I would gather them from there and bring them to the place which I chose for my name to dwell in. ”

“ Chapter 11 1 And the rulers of the people lived in Jerusalem. And the rest of the people cast lots, to bring one tenth to live in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts in [other] cities. 2 And the people blessed all the men who volunteered to live in Jerusalem.
3 And these are the heads of the province who dwelt in Jerusalem, but in the cities of Judah each one dwelt with his possessions in their cities: Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the Nethinim, and the sons of Solomon's servants. 4 And in Jerusalem lived some of the sons of Judah, and of the sons of Benjamin. ”

“ We borrow gold for tribute for the king on our lands and vineyards; 5And now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers; and our sons as their sons; look! We have yoked our sons and daughters to servitude, and our daughters are captives, and we have nothing out of which they might be bought back and other men have our fields and vineyards. ”

“ Chapter 5 1And there was a great clamor in the population and their wives against their brother Jews. 2And there were some that said: "Our sons and our daughters are very many: let us accept grain for their price and eat and live." 3But others said: "Let us mortgage our lands, vineyards, and houses and get bread in the famine." ”

“ Our god will fight for us.
21 And we kept at the work, and half of them would hold the spears from the sunrise until the stars came out. 22 Additionally, at that time I said to the people, Let each one and his servant spend the night inside Jerusalem, and so that we can have a guard by night, and labor during the day. ”

“ He built it, and covered it, and set up its doors, its bars, and its cross-beams, and the wall of the pool of the Shiloh toward the king's garden, and to the stairs that go down from the city of David. 16 After him Nehemiah son of Azbuk, the ruler of half the Beth Zur region, repaired as far as the space facing the sepulchres of David, and to the artificial pool and as far as the House of Warriors.
17 After him the Levites, Rehum son of Bani, made repairs. Next to him, Hashabiah, the ruler of half the Keilah region, made repairs to his section. ”

“ Shebaniah, Hodiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan, 11 Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah, 12 Zakkur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah, 13 Hodiah, Bani, Beninu, [24]
14 The heads of the people: Parosh, Pahath Moab, Elam, Zattu, Bani, 15 Bunni, [25] Azgad, Bebai, 16 Adoniah, Bigvai, Adin, 17 Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur, 18 Hodiah, Hashum, Bezai, 19 Hariph, Anathoth, Nobai, [26] 20 Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir, 21 Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua, 22 Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah, 23 Hoshea, Hananiah, Hashub, 24 Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek, 25 Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah, 26 and Ahiah, Hanan, Anan, 27 Malluch, Harim, Baanah. ”

“ This verse is omitted in the Septuagint.↑ (11:31) and Aiah and Bethel and its villages is omitted in the Septuagint of this verse.↑ (11:32) This verse is omitted in the Septuagint.↑ (11:33) This verse is omitted in the Septuagint.↑ (11:34) This verse is omitted in the Septuagint.↑ (11:35) This verse is omitted in the Septuagint.↑ (12:3) The Septuagint omits Rehum and Meremoth.↑ (12:4) The Septuagint omits this verse.↑ (12:5) The Septuagint omits this verse.↑ (12:6) The Septuagint omits this verse.↑ (12:7) The Septuagint omits the four names at the beginning of this verse.↑ (12:8) Mattaniah. ”