had prepared for him a large room, where previously they had stored the grain offerings, the frankincense, the utensils, the tithes of grain, the new wine and oil, which were commanded to be given to the Levites and singers and gatekeepers, and the offerings for the priests.

Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests and built the Sheep Gate; they consecrated it and set up its doors. As far as the Tower of Meah, they consecrated it; even as far as the Tower of Hananel.

After him Baruch the son of Zabbai earnestly repaired the other section, from the buttress to the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.

Jeshua begot Joiakim, Joiakim begot Eliashib, Eliashib begot Joiada,

During the reign of Darius the Persian, a record was also kept of the Levites and priests who had been heads of their fathers in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, Johanan, and Jaddua.

And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite; therefore I drove him from me.

And I fell down before Jehovah, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you had sinned in doing evil in the eyes of Jehovah, to provoke Him to anger.

I have not departed from the Commandment of His lips; I have treasured the Words of His mouth more than my prescribed food.

In the meantime His disciples urged Him, saying, Rabbi, eat.

Therefore the disciples said to one another, Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?

Then everyone who trembled at the Words of the God of Israel assembled to me, because of the treachery of those who had been carried away captive, and I sat astonished until the evening sacrifice.

And in that day Jehovah of Hosts called for weeping and mourning, and for baldness, and for girding with sackcloth.

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