{Next to them} the Tekoites repaired, but their nobles did not put their neck to the work of their lord.

After him the Tekoites repaired a second section of a wall opposite the projecting tower that goes out as far as the wall of Ophel.

Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Anathothite,

The sixth, for the sixth month, [was] Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite. And [he was] over his working group [of] twenty-four thousand.

So the Tekoite woman spoke to the king, and she fell on her face to the ground and did obeisance. She said, "Help me, O king!"

The Tekoite woman said to the king, "On me, my lord the king, [is] the guilt, and on the house of my father, but the king on his throne [is] innocent."

Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,