Now when the wall was built and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers and the singers and the Levites were appointed,
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Nehemiah 7:1 in context
Nehemiah 7:1–4
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Now when the wall was built and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers and the singers and the Levites were appointed,
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I put my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the governor of the fortress, in charge of Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man and feared God above many.
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I said to them, “Don’t let the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot; and while they stand guard, let them shut the doors, and you bar them; and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, everyone in his watch, with everyone near his house.”
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Now the city was wide and large; but the people were few therein, and the houses were not built.
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