17 Then I said to them, You see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come and let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer be a reproach.

18 And I told them of the hand of my God which had been good upon me, and also of the kings words that he had spoken to me. Then they said, Let us rise up and build. So they encouraged their hands for this good work.