Nehemiah 4:7
And it comes to pass, when Sanballat has heard, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, that lengthening has gone up to the walls of Jerusalem, that the breeches have begun to be stopped, then it is very displeasing to them,
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
6And we build the wall, and all the wall is joined—to its half, and the people have a heart to work.
8and they conspire, all of them together, to come to fight against Jerusalem, and to do to it injury.
Cross References
Judges 10:7and the anger of YHWH burns against Israel, and He sells them into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the sons of Ammon,
1 Samuel 5:1And the Philistines have taken the Ark of God, and bring it in from Eben-Ezer to Ashdod,
2 Samuel 10:1And it comes to pass afterward, that the king of the sons of Ammon dies, and his son Hanun reigns in his stead,
2 Chronicles 20:1And it comes to pass after this, the sons of Moab have come in, and the sons of Ammon, and with them of the peoples, to battle against Jehoshaphat.
Ezra 4:4And it comes to pass, the people of the land are making the hands of the people of Judah feeble, and troubling them in building,
Nehemiah 2:10and Sanballat the Horonite hears, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and it is evil to them—a great evil—that a man has come to seek good for the sons of Israel.
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 →