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,

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.

{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.