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?”

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 Shephatiah, 372.

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

The sons of Azgad, 2,322.

The sons of Bigvai, 2,067.

The sons of Hashum, 328.

The sons of Bezai, 324.

The sons of Harim, 320.

The sons of Jericho, 345.

The sons of Senaah, 3,930.

All the temple servants and the sons of Solomon's servants were 392.

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,

Now some of the heads of fathers' houses gave to the work. The governor gave to the treasury 1,000 darics of gold, 50 basins, 30 priests' garments and 500 minas of silver.

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 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.