And Yehuḏ
“Thus spoke יהוה of hosts, saying, ‘This people have said, “The time has not come, the time the House of יהוה is to be built.” ’ ”
“Son of man, Neḇ
And he made seventy thousand of them to bear burdens, and eighty thousand hewers of stone in the mountain, and three thousand six hundred overseers to make the people work.
“For when they went up to the wadi Eshkol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Yisra’ĕ
But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.”
and over the burden bearers, and overseers of all who did work in any kind of service. And of the Lĕ
And he spoke before his brothers and the army of Shomeron, and said, “What are these feeble Yehuḏ
But we prayed to our Elohim, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
And our adversaries said, “Let them not know or see it until we come into their midst and shall slay them, and cause the work to cease.”
