.

3:28. And upward from the horse gate the priests built, every man over
against his house.

3:29. After them built Sadoc the son of Emmer over against his house.
And after him built Semaia the son of Sechenias, keeper of the east
gate.

3:30. After him built Hanania the son of Selemia, and Hanun the sixth
son of Seleph, another measure: after him built Mosollam the son of
Barachias over against his treasury. After him Melcias the goldsmith's
son built unto the house of the Nathinites, and of the sellers of small
wares, over against the judgment gate, and unto the chamber of the
corner.

3:31. And within the chamber of the corner of the flock gate, the
goldsmiths and the merchants built.

2 Esdras Chapter 4

The building is carried on notwithstanding the opposition of their
enemies.

4:1. And it came to pass, that when Sanaballat heard that we were
building the wall he was angry: and being moved exceedingly he scoffed
at the Jews.

4:2. And said before his brethren, and the multitude of the Samaritans:
What are the silly Jews doing? Will the Gentiles let them alone? will
they sacrifice and make an end in a day? are they able to raise stones
out of the heaps of the rubbish, which are burnt?

4:3. Tobias also the Ammonite who was by him said: Let them build: if a
fox go up, he will leap over their stone wall.

4:4. Hear thou our God, for we are despised: turn their reproach upon
their own head, and give them to be despised in a land of captivity.

4:5. Cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from
before thy face, because they have mocked thy builders.

4:6. So we built the wall, and joined it all together unto the half
thereof: and the heart of the people was excited to work.

4:7. And it came to pass, when Sanaballat, and Tobias, and the Arabians,
and the Ammonites, and the Azotians heard that the walls of Jerusalem
were made up, and the breaches began to be closed, that they were
exceedingly angry.

4:8. And they all assembled themselves together, to come, and to fight
against Jerusalem, and to prepare ambushes.

4:9. And we prayed to our God, and set watchmen upon the wall day and
night against them.

4:10. And Juda said: The strength of the bearer of burdens is decayed,
and the rubbish is very much, and we shall not be able to build the
wall.

4:11. And our enemies said: Let them not know, nor understand, till we
come in the midst of them, and kill them, and cause the wo