¹⁵ So the wall was complete on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty-two days.

¹ Now, Sanballat, hearing that we were building the wall, was very angry, and in his wrath made sport of the Jews.

² And in the hearing of his countrymen and the army of Samaria he said, What are these feeble Jews doing? will they make themselves strong? will they make offerings? will they get the work done in a day? will they make the stones which have been burned come again out of the dust?

¹⁵ And the building of this house was complete on the third day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of the rule of Darius the king.

³ He will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, which gives its fruit at the right time, whose leaves will ever be green; and he will do well in all his undertakings.

²⁵ Have then the certain knowledge that from the going out of the word for the building again of Jerusalem till the coming of a prince, on whom the holy oil has been put, will be seven weeks: in sixty-two weeks its building will be complete, with square and earthwork.