The exiles observed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.

and Hashabiah, along with Jeshaiah from the descendants of Merari, with his brothers and their sons, 20 men,

The sons of Hassenaah rebuilt the Fish Gate. They laid its beams and positioned its doors, its bolts, and its bars.

They contacted me four times in this way, and I responded the same way each time.

The fifth time that Sanballat sent his assistant to me in this way, he had an open letter in his hand.

“But they – our ancestors – behaved presumptuously; they rebelled and did not obey your commandments.

“We will not give our daughters in marriage to the neighboring peoples, and we will not take their daughters in marriage for our sons.

I was very upset, and I threw all of Tobiah’s household possessions out of the storeroom.

Also in those days I saw the men of Judah who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

So they hanged Haman on the very gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. The king’s rage then abated.

When the king extended to Esther the gold scepter, she arose and stood before the king.

So the king issued orders for this to be done. A law was passed in Susa, and the ten sons of Haman were hanged.

Then Satan answered the Lord, “Is it for nothing that Job fears God?

So the Lord said to Satan, “All right, he is in your power; only preserve his life.”

Would it turn out well if he would examine you? Or as one deceives a man would you deceive him?

Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?

I will never declare that you three are in the right; until I die, I will not set aside my integrity!

I will teach you about the power of God; What is on the Almighty’s mind I will not conceal.

So these three men refused to answer Job further, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

With Job’s three friends he was also angry, because they could not find an answer, and so declared Job guilty.