Moreover I said to the king, "If it pleases the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the River, that they may let me pass through until I come to Judah;

Then I went on to the spring gate and to the king's pool: but there was no place for the animal that was under me to pass.

It came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.

It came to pass that, when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut, and commanded that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. I set some of my servants over the gates, that no burden should be brought in on the Sabbath day.