1 After the wall once built, is the watch appointed. 6 They that returned from the captivity are numbered.

Now when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters, and the singers and the Levites were appointed,

Then I commanded my brother Hanani and Hananiah, the prince of the palace in Jerusalem (for he was doubtless a faithful man, and feared God above many)

And I said unto them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened, until the heat of the sun: and while [a]they stand by, let them shut the doors, and [b]make them fast: and I appointed wards of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, everyone in his ward, and everyone over against his house.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 7:3 To wit, they that are mentioned, verse 2.
  2. Nehemiah 7:3 Hebrew, hold them, meaning, till the bars were put in.

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