The diseased men came and called to the city’s gatekeepers and told them, ‘We went to the Aramean camp and no one was there #– #no human sounds. There was nothing but tethered horses and donkeys, and the tents were intact.’
Nehemiah 7:1 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised When the wall had been rebuilt and I had the doors installed, the gatekeepers, singers, and Levites were appointed. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Now it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed, Amplified Bible - Classic Edition NOW WHEN the wall was built and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers, singers, and Levites had been appointed, American Standard Version (1901) Now it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed, Common English Bible When the wall had been built and I had hung the doors, the gatekeepers, singers, and Levites were appointed. Catholic Public Domain Version Then, after the wall was built, and I set up the double doors, and I enrolled the gatekeepers, and the singing men, and the Levites, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Now after the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and numbered the porters and singing men, and Levites: |
The diseased men came and called to the city’s gatekeepers and told them, ‘We went to the Aramean camp and no one was there #– #no human sounds. There was nothing but tethered horses and donkeys, and the tents were intact.’
Hezekiah re-established the divisions of the priests and Levites for the burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, for ministry, for giving thanks, and for praise in the gates of the camp of the Lord, each division corresponding to his service among the priests and Levites.
In the second month of the second year after they arrived at God’s house in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Jeshua son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers, including the priests, the Levites, and all who had returned to Jerusalem from the captivity, began to build. They appointed the Levites who were twenty years old or more to supervise the work on the Lord’s house.
For the Israelites and the Levites are to bring the contributions of grain, new wine, and fresh oil to the storerooms where the articles of the sanctuary are kept and where the priests who minister are, along with the gatekeepers and singers. We will not neglect the house of our God.
These are the heads of the province who stayed in Jerusalem (but in the villages of Judah each lived on his own property in their towns #– #the Israelites, priests, Levites, temple servants, and descendants of Solomon’s servants #– #
The heads of the Levites #– #Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua son of Kadmiel, along with their relatives opposite them #– #gave praise and thanks, division by division, as David the man of God had prescribed.
When Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall and that no gap was left in it #– #though at that time I had not installed the doors in the city gates #– #
The wall was completed in fifty-two days, on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul.
These nobles kept mentioning Tobiah’s good deeds to me, and they reported my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to intimidate me.