1 Then it was, when the wall was built and I had ^ahung the doors, when the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed,  ‡

3 And I said to them, “Do not let the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot; and while they stand guard, let them shut and bar the doors; and appoint guards from among the inhabitants of Jerusalem, one at his watch station and another in front of his own house.”

4 Now the city was large and spacious, but the people in it were ^afew, and the houses were not rebuilt.  ‡