Nehemiah 2:17-19

New American Standard Bible 1995

¹⁷ Then I said to them, “You see the bad situation we are in, that ^(A)Jerusalem is desolate and its gates burned by fire. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem so that we will no longer be a reproach.” ¹⁸ I told them how the hand of my God had been favorable to me and also about the king’s words which he had spoken to me. Then they said, “Let us arise and build.” ^(B)So they put their hands to the good work. ¹⁹ But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite ^[a]official, and ^(C)Geshem the Arab heard it, ^(D)they mocked us and despised us and said, “What is this thing you are doing? ^(E)Are you rebelling against the king?”