hened my hands the more:

6:10. And I went into the house of Samaia the son of Delaia, the son of
Metabeel privately. And he said: Let us consult together in the house of
God in the midst of the temple: and let us shut the doors of the temple,
for they will come to kill thee, and in the night they will come to slay
thee.

6:11. And I said: Should such a man as I flee? and who is there that
being as I am, would go into the temple, to save his life? I will not
go in.

6:12. And I understood that God had not sent him, but that he had spoken
to me as if he had been prophesying, and Tobias, and Sanaballat had
hired him.

6:13. For he had taken money, that I being afraid should do this thing,
and sin, and they might have some evil to upbraid me withal.

6:14. Remember me, O Lord, for Tobias and Sanaballat, according to their
works of this kind: and Noadias the prophet, and the rest of the
prophets that would have put me in fear.

6:15. But the wall was finished the five and twentieth day of the month
of Elul, in two and fifty days.

6:16. And it came to pass when all our enemies heard of it, that all
nations which were round about us, were afraid, and were cast down
within themselves, for they perceived that this work was the work of
God.

6:17. Moreover in those days many letters were sent by the principal men
of the Jews to Tobias, and from Tobias there came letters to them.

6:18. For there were many in Judea sworn to him, because he was the son
in law of Sechenias the son of Area, and Johanan his son had taken to
wife the daughter of Mosollam the son of Barachias.

6:19. And they praised him also before me, and they related my words to
him: And Tobias sent letters to put me in fear.

2 Esdras Chapter 7

Nehemias appointeth watchmen in Jerusalem. The list of those who came
first from Babylon.

7:1. Now after the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and
numbered the porters and singing men, and Levites:

7:2. I commanded Hanani my brother, and Hananias ruler of the house of
Jerusalem, (for he seemed as a sincere man, and one that feared God
above the rest,)

7:3. And I said to them: Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened till
the sun be hot. And while they were yet standing by the gates were shut,
and barred: and I set watchmen of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every
one by their courses, and every man over against his house.

7:4. And the city was very wide and great, and the people few in the