All of them conspired together to move with armed forces against Jerusalem and to create a disturbance in it.

Please remember me for good, O my God, for all that I have done for this people.

All the temple servants and the descendants of the servants of Solomon, 392.

The entire group numbered 42,360,

Then the Levites quieted all the people saying, “Be quiet, for this day is holy. Do not grieve.”

Those truly of Israelite descent separated from all the foreigners, standing and confessing their sins and the iniquities of their ancestors.

You are righteous with regard to all that has happened to us, for you have acted faithfully. It is we who have been in the wrong!

(10:1) “Because of all of this we are entering into a binding covenant in written form; our leaders, our Levites, and our priests have affixed their names on the sealed document.”

The sum total of the descendants of Perez who were settling in Jerusalem was 468 exceptional men.

And the rest of the Israelites, with the priests and the Levites, were in all the cities of Judah, each on his own property.

Pethahiah son of Meshezabel, one of the descendants of Zerah son of Judah, was an adviser to the king in every matter pertaining to the people.

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

The people from Tyre who lived there were bringing fish and all kinds of merchandise and were selling it on the Sabbath to the people of Judah – and in Jerusalem, of all places!

The traders and sellers of all kinds of merchandise spent the night outside Jerusalem once or twice.

So I purified them of everything foreign, and I assigned specific duties to the priests and the Levites.

The Jews struck all their enemies with the sword, bringing death and destruction, and they did as they pleased with their enemies.

In all this Job did not sin, nor did he charge God with moral impropriety.

Which of all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this,

And you put my feet in the stocks and you watch all my movements; you put marks on the soles of my feet.

If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait until my release comes.