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Ask a QuestionAnd Maaseiah, Shemaiah, Eleazar, Uzzi, Jehohanan, Malchijah, Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sang and made themselves heard, with Jezrahiah as leader.
After 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.
Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well! Let all sing to it,
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 SANG Deborah and Barak son of Abinoam on that day, saying,
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.