and he made himself a great treasury, and there they were formerly in the habit of bestowing the offerings, and the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithe of the grain, and the wine, and the oil, the ordered portion of the Levites, and singers, and porters; and the firstfruits of the priests.

Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and built the Sheep Gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even to the Tower of the Hundred they sanctified [it], to the Tower of Hananel.

After him repaired Baruch the son of Zabbai, a second portion, from the corner as far as the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.

And Jeshua begot Joiakim, and Joiakim begot Eliashib, and Eliashib [begot] Joiada,

The Levites in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, Joa, Johanan, and Jaddua, [were] recorded heads of families. Also the priests, in the reign of Darius the Persian.

And Elishub the high priest, [one] of the sons of Joiada, son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite, I chased away from me.

And I made my petition before the Lord as also at the first forty days and forty nights: I ate no bread and drank no water, on account of all your sins which you sinned in doing evil before the Lord God, to provoke Him.

neither shall I transgress; but I have hid His words in my bosom.

But in the meantime the disciples urged Him, saying, "Rabbi, eat."

Therefore the disciples were saying to one another, "Has anyone brought Him [something] to eat?"

Then there assembled to me all that followed the word of the God of Israel, on account of the transgression of the captivity; and I remained mourning until the evening sacrifice.

And the Lord, the Lord of hosts, called in that day for weeping, and lamentation, and baldness, and for girding with sackcloth;

And I set my face toward the Lord God, to seek [Him] diligently by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth.