usalem, and let us be no
longer a reproach.

2:18. And I shewed them how the hand of my God was good with me, and the
king's words, which he had spoken to me, and I said: Let us rise up, and
build. And their hands were strengthened in good.

2:19. But Sanaballat the Horonite, and Tobias the servant, the Ammonite,
and Gossem the Arabian heard of it, and they scoffed at us, and despised
us, and said: What is this thing that you do? are you going to rebel
against the king?

2:20. And I answered them, and said to them: The God of heaven he
helpeth us, and we are his servants: let us rise up and build: but you
have no part, nor justice, nor remembrance in Jerusalem.

2 Esdras Chapter 3

They begin to build the walls: the names and order of the builders.

3:1. Then Eliasib the high priest arose, and his brethren the priests,
and they built the flock gate: they sanctified it, and set up the doors
thereof, even unto the tower of a hundred cubits they sanctified it unto
the tower of Hananeel.

3:2. And next to him the men of Jericho built: and next to them built
Zachur the son of Amri.

3:3. But the fish gate the sons of Asnaa built: they covered it, and set
up the doors thereof, and the locks, and the bars. And next to them
built Marimuth the son of Urias the son of Accus.

4. And next to him built Mosollam the son of Barachias, the son of
Merezebel, and next to them built Sadoc the son of Baana.

5. And next to them the Thecuites built: but their great men did not put
their necks to the work of their Lord.

3:6. And Joiada the son of Phasea, and Mosollam the son of Besodia built
the old gate: they covered it and set up the doors thereof, and the
locks, and the bars.

3:7. And next to them built Meltias the Gabaonite, and Jadon the
Meronathite, the men of Gabaon and Maspha, for the governor that was in
the country beyond the river.

3:8. And next to him built Eziel the son of Araia the goldsmith: and
next to him built Ananias the son of the perfumer: and they left
Jerusalem unto the wall of the broad street.

3:9. And next to him built Raphaia the son of Hur, lord of the street of
Jerusalem.

3:10. And next to him Jedaia the son of Haromaph over against his own
house: and next to him built Hattus the son of Hasebonia.

3:11. Melchias the son of Herem, and Hasub the son of Phahath Moab,
built half the street, and the tower of the furnaces.

3:12. And next to him built Sellum the son of Alohes, lord of half