But if ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments and do them: though ye were cast out unto the uttermost part of heaven, yet will I gather you from thence, and will bring you from thence, even unto the place that I have chosen for my name to dwell there.'

and said unto the king, "If it please the king, let him give me letters to the captains beyond the water, that they may convey me over, till I come into Judah:

And our adversaries thought, "They shall not know, neither see, till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and hinder the work."

and we will be laboring in the work." And the half part of them held the spears from the morning spring, till the stars came forth.

And I came unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, and he had shut himself within, and said, "Let us come together in to the house of God, even unto the midst of the temple, and shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to slay thee, yea even in the night will they come to put thee to death."

The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred and two and forty.

And Hathirsatha said unto them that they should not eat of the most holy, till there came up a Priest with light and perfectness.

And they found written in the law, how that the LORD had commanded by Moses that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month.

And the rulers of the people dwelt at Jerusalem. But the other people cast lots therefore, so that among ten one part went to Jerusalem into the holy city to dwell, and nine parts in the cities.

And the people thanked all the men that were willingly to dwell at Jerusalem.

For it was the king's commandment concerning them, that the singers should deal faithfully every day as according was.

And it fortuned, that when the ports of Jerusalem began to be dark in the evening before the Sabbath, I commanded to shut the gates, and charged that they should not be opened till after the Sabbath: and some of my servants set I at the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the Sabbath day.