Next unto him builded they of Tekoa. But their great men put not their necks to the service of their lord.

Cover not their wickedness, and let not their sin be put out from thy presence: for they have provoked the builders.

As for me and my brethren, and my servants, and the men of the watch behind me, we put never off our clothes, so much as to wash ourselves.

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."

My God, think thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat according unto these their works, and of the Prophetess Noadiah and of the other Prophets, that would have put me in fear.

And they spake good of him before me, and told him my words; and Tobiah sent letters, to put me in fear.

These sought the register of their generation, and when they found it not, they were put from the priesthood.