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Ask a QuestionAfter him Binnui son of Henadad repaired another section [of the wall], from the house of Azariah to the angular turn of the wall and to the corner.
After them the Tekoites repaired another portion opposite the great projecting tower to the wall of Ophel.
So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty-two days.
And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, the people, the gates, and the wall.
These side chambers were three stories high, one over another and thirty in each story; and they entered into the wall which belonged to the house for the side chambers round about, that they might have hold of the wall [of the house], but they did not have hold of the wall of the temple.
The other company of those who gave thanks went to the left; I followed with half of the people upon the wall, above the Tower of the Furnaces to the Broad Wall,
The Valley Gate [the main entrance in the west wall, the Jaffa Gate] was repaired by Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah. They built it and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars and repaired a thousand cubits of the wall, as far as the Dung Gate.
After him Baruch son of Zabbai (Zaccai) earnestly repaired another portion [toward the hill] from the angular turning of the wall to the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.
Then I brought the princes of Judah up on the wall, and I appointed two great companies of them who gave thanks and went in procession. One went to the right upon the wall toward the Dung Gate.
But the Angel of the Lord stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall on this side and a wall on that side.
Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was built into the [town] wall so that she dwelt in the wall.
NOW WHEN the wall was built and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers, singers, and Levites had been appointed,
And Azariah, Ezra, Meshullam,
Judah, Benjamin, Shemaiah, and Jeremiah,
Next to him repaired Ezer son of Jeshua, ruler of Mizpah, another district over opposite the ascent to the armory at the angle [in the wall].
Then He said to me, Son of man, dig now in the wall. And when I had dug in the wall, behold, there was a door.
Above the Horse Gate the priests repaired, everyone opposite his own house.
The hearts [of the inhabitants of Jerusalem] cried to the Lord. [Then to the congregation, I, Jeremiah, cried, addressing the wall as its symbol] O wall of the Daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night; give yourself no rest, let not your eyes stop [shedding tears].
Thus will I accomplish My wrath upon the wall and upon those who have daubed it with whitewash, and I will say to you, The wall is no more, neither are they who daubed it,
After him the priests, men of the plain, repaired.