Nehemiah 4:7
But it came to pass, when Sanaballat and Tobia, and the Arabians, and the Ammanites, heard that the building of the walls of Jerusalem was advancing, and that the breaches began to be stopped, that it appeared very grievous to them.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
8And all of them assembled together, to come to fight against Jerusalem, and to destroy it utterly.
Cross References
Judges 10:7And the Lord was very angry with Israel, and sold them into the hands of the Phylistines, and into the hand of the children of Ammon.
1 Samuel 5:1And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Abenezer to Azotus.
2 Samuel 10:1And it came to pass after this that the king of the children of Ammon died, and Annon his son reigned in his stead.
2 Chronicles 20:1And after this came the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them some of the Minaeans, against Josaphat to battle.
Ezra 4:4And the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Juda, and hindered them in building,
Nehemiah 2:10And Sanaballat the Aronite heard it, and Tobia the servant, the Ammonite, and it was grievous to them that a man was come to seek good for the children 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 →