His son Jehoshaphat replaced him as king and solidified his rule over Israel.

Jehochanan the commander led 280,000,

He appointed the priests to fulfill their duties and encouraged them to carry out their service in the Lord’s temple.

So we fasted and prayed to our God about this, and he answered us.

Get up, for this matter concerns you. We are with you, so be strong and act decisively!”

Above the Horse Gate the priests worked, each in front of his house.

On the sealed documents were the following names: Nehemiah the governor, son of Hacaliah, along with Zedekiah,

The temple attendants were living on Ophel, and Ziha and Gishpa were over them.

So Mordecai set out to do everything that Esther had instructed him.

King Ahasuerus then imposed forced labor on the land and on the coastlands of the sea.

In the troubling thoughts of the dreams in the night when a deep sleep falls on men,

Then a breath of air passes by my face; it makes the hair of my flesh stand up.

“Now then, be good enough to look at me; and I will not lie to your face!

Am I the sea, or the creature of the deep, that you must put me under guard?

He is a well-watered plant in the sun, its shoots spread over its garden.

It wraps its roots around a heap of stones and it looks for a place among stones.

he alone spreads out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea;

They glide by like reed boats, like an eagle that swoops down on its prey.

Nor is there an arbiter between us, who might lay his hand on us both,

although you know that I am not guilty, and that there is no one who can deliver out of your hand?