Nehemiah 4:7

But when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodims heard that the walles of Ierusalem were repayred, (for the breaches began to be stopped) then they were very wroth,

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In The King James Version

But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,

In Context

6So we built the wall, and all the wall was ioyned vnto the halfe thereof, and the heart of the people was to worke.

8And conspired all together to come and to fight against Ierusalem, and to hinder them.

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Cross References

Judges 10:7Therefore the wrath of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he solde them into the hands of the Philistims, and into the handes of the children of Ammon:

1 Samuel 5:1Then the Philistims tooke the Arke of God and caried it from Eben-ezer vnto Ashdod,

2 Samuel 10:1After this, the King of the children of Ammon dyed, and Hanun his sonne reigned in his steade.

2 Chronicles 20:1After this also came the children of Moab and the children of Ammon, and with them of the Ammonites against Iehoshaphat to battell.

Ezra 4:4Wherefore the people of the land discouraged the people of Iudah, and troubled them in buylding,

Nehemiah 2:10But Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah a seruant an Ammonite heard it, and it grieued them sore, that there was come a man which sought the wealth of 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 →

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