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4 Still others were saying, “We have had to borrow money to pay the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards.

10 I and my brothers and my men are also lending the people money and grain. But let us stop charging interest!

64 These searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.

7 “You are the LORD God, who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and named him Abraham.

30 “We promise not to give our daughters in marriage to the peoples around us or take their daughters for our sons.

9 Joel son of Zikri was their chief officer, and Judah son of Hassenuah was over the New Quarter of the city.

29 from Beth Gilgal, and from the area of Geba and Azmaveth, for the musicians had built villages for themselves around Jerusalem.

31 I also made provision for contributions of wood at designated times, and for the firstfruits. Remember me with favor, my God.

17 who were building the wall. Those who carried materials did their work with one hand and held a weapon in the other,

21 So we continued the work with half the men holding spears, from the first light of dawn till the stars came out.

5 Then, the fifth time, Sanballat sent his aide to me with the same message, and in his hand was an unsealed letter

12 I realized that God had not sent him, but that he had prophesied against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.

17 Also, in those days the nobles of Judah were sending many letters to Tobiah, and replies from Tobiah kept coming to them.

4 Now the city was large and spacious, but there were few people in it, and the houses had not yet been rebuilt.

16 Shabbethai and Jozabad, two of the heads of the Levites, who had charge of the outside work of the house of God;

20 The rest of the Israelites, with the priests and Levites, were in all the towns of Judah, each on their ancestral property.

12 In the days of Joiakim, these were the heads of the priestly families: of Seraiah’s family, Meraiah; of Jeremiah’s, Hananiah;

17 I rebuked the nobles of Judah and said to them, “What is this wicked thing you are doing—desecrating the Sabbath day?

8 I sent him this reply: “Nothing like what you are saying is happening; you are just making it up out of your head.”

19 Moreover, they kept reporting to me his good deeds and then telling him what I said. And Tobiah sent letters to intimidate me.