Nehemiah 4:7
When Sanballat and Tobiah, and the Arabs, Ammonites, and Ashdodites, heard that the repair to the walls of Jerusalem was progressing and that the gaps were being filled in, they were furious.
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8They all plotted together to come and attack Jerusalem and to throw everything into confusion.
Cross References
Judges 10:7So the Lord became angry with Israel, and he sold them to the Philistines and the Ammonites.
1 Samuel 5:1After the Philistines captured the Ark of God, they took it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.
2 Samuel 10:1Sometime after this, Nahash, the Ammonite king died and his son Hanun succeeded him.
2 Chronicles 20:1Then, after this, the Moabites and Ammonites, as well as some of the Meunites, came to attack Jehoshaphat.
Ezra 4:4Then the local people set out to intimidate the people of Judah and make them too scared to go on building.
Nehemiah 2:10But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official heard about this, they were upset. For them this was a total disaster—that someone had arrived to help out the Israelites.
Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 4:2-7
The Opposition of Sanballat, &c.. ( b. c. 445.) 1 But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews. 2 And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned? 3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they… Read the whole commentary →