And he said in the presence of his brothers and of the army of Samaria, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they restore it for themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish up in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, and burned ones at that?”

Moreover, there were at my table 150 men, Jews and officials, besides those who came to us from the nations that were around us.

And they sent to me four times in this way, and I answered them in the same manner.

In the same way Sanballat for the fifth time sent his servant to me with an open letter in his hand.

the sons of Parosh, 2,172.

The sons of Pahath-moab, namely the sons of Jeshua and Joab, 2,818.

The sons of Zattu, 845.

The sons of Azgad, 2,322.

The sons of Bigvai, 2,067.

besides their male and female servants, of whom there were 7,337. And they had 245 singers, male and female.

Their horses were 736, their mules 245,

And some of the heads of fathers' houses gave into the treasury of the work 20,000 darics of gold and 2,200 minas of silver.

And what the rest of the people gave was 20,000 darics of gold, 2,000 minas of silver, and 67 priests' garments.

and their brothers who did the work of the house, 822; and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, son of Pelaliah, son of Amzi, son of Zechariah, son of Pashhur, son of Malchijah,

and his brothers, heads of fathers' houses, 242; and Amashsai, the son of Azarel, son of Ahzai, son of Meshillemoth, son of Immer,

All the Levites in the holy city were 284.