There were others who said, “We are putting up our fields, our vineyards, and our houses as collateral in order to obtain grain during the famine.”

Now the city was spread out and large, and there were not a lot of people in it. At that time houses had not been rebuilt.

The priests: the descendants of Jedaiah (through the family of Jeshua), 973;

We accept responsibility for fulfilling the commands to give one third of a shekel each year for the work of the temple of our God,

Shabbethai and Jozabad, leaders of the Levites, were in charge of the external work for the temple of God;

and from Beth Gilgal and from the fields of Geba and Azmaveth, for the singers had built settlements for themselves around Jerusalem.

Then the two choirs that gave thanks took their stations in the temple of God. I did also, along with half the officials with me,

But prior to this time, Eliashib the priest, a relative of Tobiah, had been appointed over the storerooms of the temple of our God.

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

Then I gave instructions that the storerooms should be purified, and I brought back the equipment of the temple of God, along with the grain offering and the incense.

So I registered a complaint with the leaders, asking “Why is the temple of God neglected?” Then I gathered them and reassigned them to their positions.

Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in King Ahasuerus’ royal palace.

But Haman restrained himself and went on to his home. He then sent for his friends to join him, along with his wife Zeresh.

Then Mordecai again sat at the king’s gate, while Haman hurried away to his home, mournful and with a veil over his head.

Now the day came when Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?

He leans against his house but it does not hold up, he takes hold of it but it does not stand.

he lived in ruined towns and in houses where no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps.

For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked lived?’

In the dark the robber breaks into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.