Nehemiah 3:5-7

Good News Translation

⁵ The men of Tekoa built the next section, but the leading men of the town refused to do the manual labor assigned them by the supervisors.

⁶ Joiada son of Paseah and Meshullam son of Besodeiah rebuilt Jeshanah Gate.^[a] They put the beams and the gates in place, and put in the bolts and bars for locking the gate.

⁷ Melatiah from Gibeon, Jadon from Meronoth, and the men of Gibeon and Mizpah built the next section, as far as the residence of the governor of West-of-Euphrates.