Nehemiah 2:19
19But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite servant and aGeshem the Arab heard of it, bthey jeered at us and despised us and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? cAre you rebelling against the king?”Nehemiah 4:1-3
Opposition to the Work
1 ▼▼Ch 3:33 in Hebrew
Now when eSanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry and greatly enraged, and he jeered at the Jews. 2And he said in the presence of his brothers and of the army of fSamaria, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they restore it for themselves? ▼▼Or Will they commit themselves to God?
Will they sacrifice? Will they finish up in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, and burned ones at that?” 3 hTobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, “Yes, what they are building— iif a fox goes up on it he will break down their stone wall!” Nehemiah 4:7
7 ▼▼Ch 4:1 in Hebrew
But when kSanballat and Tobiah and the Arabs and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and that the breaches were beginning to be closed, they were very angry. Nehemiah 6:1
Conspiracy Against Nehemiah
1Now when lSanballat and Tobiah and mGeshem the Arab and the rest of our enemies heard that I had built the wall and that there was no breach left in it ( nalthough up to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates),
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