And they traveled through Amphipolis and Apollonia and came to  ¹Thessalonica, where there was a  ²synagogue of the JEWS.

And according to his custom Paul  ¹went in to them, and on three Sabbaths he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

Opening and setting before them that the Christ had to suffer and rise from the dead, and saying, This is the Christ, the Jesus whom I announce to you.

And some of them were persuaded and  ¹were joined to Paul and Silas, as well as a great multitude of the devout Greeks, and of the chief women not a few.

But the Jews, becoming jealous and taking along some evil men from among the loafers in the marketplace, gathered a crowd and set the city in an uproar; and coming upon the house of Jason, they sought to bring them to the populace.

But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some brothers before the city officials, shouting, These men who have upset the  ¹world have come here also,

Whom Jason has welcomed; and these all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus.

And they stirred up the crowd and the city officials, who listened to these things.

And when they had taken bail from Jason and the rest, they released them.

And the brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away during the night to Berea, who, when they arrived, went off into the synagogue of the JEWS.

Now these people were more  ¹noble than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

Therefore many of them believed, and there were not a few Greek women of high standing and men.

But when the Jews from Thessalonica found out that the word of God had been announced by Paul in Berea also, they came there as well, agitating and stirring up the crowds.

And immediately the brothers then sent Paul off, to go as far as the sea; and Silas and Timothy remained there.

And those who conducted Paul brought him as far as  ¹Athens; and receiving a command for Silas and Timothy to come to him as quickly as possible, they went off.

And while Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his  ¹spirit was provoked within him as he beheld that the city was  ²full of idols.

He reasoned therefore in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there.

And some of the  ¹Epicurean and  ²Stoic philosophers also confronted him. And some said, What would this  ³babbler wish to say? And others, He seems to be an announcer of foreign  ⁴deities — because he was announcing Jesus and the resurrection as the gospel.

And they took hold of him and led him to the  ¹Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new teaching is which is being spoken by you?

For you are bringing strange things to our ears. We intend to know therefore  ¹what these things mean.

(Now all the Athenians and the foreigners sojourning there spent their time on nothing other than telling or hearing something new.)

And Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said,  ¹Men of Athens, I observe that in every way you  ²very much revere your deities.

For while I was passing through and carefully observing the objects of your worship, I even found an altar on which was inscribed, To An UNKNOWN God. What therefore you worship without knowing, this I announce to you.

The  ¹God who made the world and all things in it, this One, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands;

Neither is He served by human hands as though He needed anything in addition, since He Himself gives to all life and breath and all things.

And He made from  ¹one every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, determining beforehand their  ²appointed seasons and the boundaries of their dwelling,

That they might seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, even though He is  ¹not far from each one of us;

For  ¹in Him we live and move and are, as even some  ²poets among you have said, For we are also  ³His  ⁴race.

Being then the race of God, we ought not to suppose that  ¹what is divine is like gold or silver or stone, like an engraving of art and  ²thought of man.

Therefore, having overlooked the times of ignorance, God now  ¹charges all men everywhere to repent,

Because He has set a  ¹day in which He is to judge the world in righteousness by the man whom He has designated, having furnished  ²proof to all by raising Him from the dead.

And when they heard of a resurrection of the dead, some scoffed; and others said, We will hear you yet again concerning this.

Thus Paul went out from their midst.

But some men joined him and believed, among whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them.

The words of  ¹Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah.  ²Now in the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, while I was in Susa the capital,

Hanani, one of my brothers, came, he and some men from Judah; and I asked them about the Jews who had escaped, who were left from the captivity, and about  ¹Jerusalem.

And they said to me, The remnant who are left from the captivity there in the province are in an exceedingly bad state and reproach, and the wall of Jerusalem is broken down and its gates have been burned with fire.

And when I heard these words, I sat down and wept, and I mourned for some days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven,

And said, I beseech You, O Jehovah the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and lovingkindness with those who love Him and keep His commandments:

Let Your ear be attentive and Your eyes open to hear the prayer of Your servant, which I pray before You now day and night, concerning the children of Israel, Your servants, while I confess the sins of the children of Israel that we have sinned against You. Indeed, I and the house of my father have sinned;

We have been most corrupt toward You and have not kept the  ¹commandments and the statutes and the ordinances that You commanded Moses Your servant.

Remember now the  ¹word that You commanded Moses Your servant, saying, If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples;

But if you return to Me and keep My commandments and perform them, though your outcasts are under the ends of heaven, from there I will gather them and bring them to the place where I have chosen to cause My name to dwell.

Now these are Your servants and Your people, whom You have redeemed by Your great power and by Your strong hand.

I beseech You, O Lord, let Your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your servant and to the prayer of Your servants, who take delight in fearing Your name; and cause Your servant to prosper today, and grant him to find compassion before this man. Now I was cupbearer to the king.

Then in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, while wine was being set before him, I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had never been sad in his presence.

And the king said to me, Why is your face sad, since you are not ill? This is nothing other than sadness of heart. Then I was greatly frightened.

And I said to the king,  ¹May the king live forever! Why should my face not be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' graves, lies in waste and its gates are consumed with fire?

And the king said to me, What do you request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.

And I said to the king, If it please the king and if your servant has found favor before you, that you would send me to Judah to the city of my fathers' graves that I may rebuild it.

And the king said to me (and the queen was sitting beside him), How long will your going be, and when will you return? So it pleased the king to send me, and I gave him a date.

Then I said to the king, If it please the king, let letters be given to me for the governors beyond the  ¹River, so that they will let me pass through until I come to Judah;

And a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the Park, which belongs to the king, so that he would give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace that belongs to the house and for the wall of the city and for the house that I will be entering. And the king gave these to me according to the good  ¹hand of my God, which was upon me.

So I went to the governors beyond the River and gave them the king's letters. And the king had sent with me captains of the army and horsemen.

And when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite  ¹servant heard of this, it displeased them greatly that a man had come seeking the good of the children of Israel.

Thus I came to Jerusalem and was there three days.

And I arose at night, I and some few men with me. And I told no man what my God had put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. And there was no animal with me except the animal I rode on.

And I went out at night by the Valley Gate, toward the Jackals' Spring and the Dung Gate, and inspected the walls of Jerusalem, which had been broken down and whose gates had been consumed with fire.

Then I passed on to the Fountain Gate and to the King's Pool, but there was no place for the animal under me to pass through.

And I went up at night by the brook and inspected the wall, and turned back and went in by the Valley Gate and so returned.

And the rulers did not know where I had gone or what I had been doing; and I had not as yet told it to the Jews and the priests and the nobles and the rulers and the rest who were to do the work.

Then I said to them, You see the bad state we are in, that Jerusalem lies in waste and its gates are burned with fire. Come and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem so that we will no longer be a reproach.

And I told them about the hand of my God, which was good upon me, and also about the king's words, which he had spoken to me. And they said, Let us rise up and build; and they strengthened their hands for the good work.

But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite servant and Geshem the Arabian heard of it, they mocked us and despised us; and they said, What is this thing that you will do? Will you rebel against the king?

And I answered them and said to them,  ¹The God of heaven Himself will make us prosper; therefore we His servants will rise up and build. But you have no portion nor right nor memorial in Jerusalem.

Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests and built the Sheep Gate. They consecrated it and erected its doors; even as far as the Tower of the Hundred they consecrated it and as far as the Tower of Hananel.

And next to him the men of Jericho built. And next to them Zaccur the son of Imri built.

And the sons of Hassenaah built the Fish Gate: They laid its beams and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars.

And next to them Meremoth the son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz made repairs. And next to them Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabel made repairs. And next to them Zadok the son of Baana made repairs.

And next to them the Tekoites made repairs, but their nobles would not put their necks to the service of their  ¹Lord.

And Joiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah repaired the Old Gate: They laid its beams and set up its doors and its bolts and its bars.

And next to them Melatiah the Gibeonite and Jadon the Meronothite with the men of Gibeon and of Mizpah made repairs to the throne of the governor beyond the River.

Next to him Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, one of the goldsmiths, made repairs. And next to him Hananiah, one of the perfumers, made repairs, and they fortified Jerusalem even unto the Broad Wall.

And next to them Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, made repairs.

And next to them Jedaiah the son of Harumaph, opposite his house. And next to him Hattush the son of Hashabneiah made repairs.

Malchijah the son of Harim and Hasshub the son of Pahath-moab repaired another section, including the Tower of the Furnaces.

And next to him Shallum the son of Hallohesh, the ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, made repairs, he and his daughters.

Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah repaired the Valley Gate: They built it and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars, as well as one thousand cubits of the wall to the Dung Gate.

And Malchijah the son of Rechab, the ruler of the district of Beth-haccherem repaired the Dung Gate: He built it and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars.

And Shallum the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of the district of Mizpah, repaired the Fountain Gate: He built it and covered it and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars, as well as the wall of the Pool of Shelah by the King's Garden, even to the stairs that go down from the City of David.

After him Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of half the district of Beth-zur, made repairs, from a place opposite the Sepulchres of David and as far as the pool that was made and as far as the House of the Mighty Men.

After him the Levites, under Rehum the son of Bani, made repairs. Next to him Hashabiah, the ruler of half the district of Keilah, made repairs for his district.

After him their brothers, under Bavvai the son of Henadad, the ruler of half the district of Keilah, made repairs.

And next to him Ezer the son of Jeshua, the ruler of Mizpah, repaired another section, opposite the ascent to the armory at the turning of the wall.

After him Baruch the son of Zabbai diligently repaired another section, from the turning of the wall to the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.

After him Meremoth the son of Uriah the son of Hakkoz repaired another section, from the door of the house of Eliashib even to the end of the house of Eliashib.

And after him the priests, the men from the plain, made repairs.

After them Benjamin and Hasshub made repairs opposite their house. After them Azariah the son of Maaseiah the son of Ananiah made repairs beside his own house.

After him Binnui the son of Henadad repaired another section, from the house of Azariah to the turning of the wall, then to the corner.

Palal the son of Uzai made repairs from in front of the turning of the wall, and on the tower that projects out from the upper house of the king, which is by the court of the guard. After him was Pedaiah the son of Parosh.

(Now the temple servants dwelt on the Ophel, as far as the point opposite the Water Gate on the east, and the tower that projects out.)

After him the Tekoites repaired another section, opposite the great tower that projects out and to the wall of the Ophel.

Above the Horse Gate the priests made repairs, each one opposite his own house.

After them Zadok the son of Immer made repairs opposite his own house. And after him Shemaiah the son of Shecaniah, the keeper of the East Gate, made repairs.

After him Hananiah the son of Shelemiah and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph repaired a second section. After him Meshullam the son of Berechiah made repairs, opposite his quarters.

After him Malchijah, one of the goldsmiths, made repairs as far as the house of the temple servants and the merchants, opposite the Muster Gate and as far as the ascent of the corner.

And between the ascent of the corner and the Sheep Gate the goldsmiths and the merchants made repairs.