Nehemiah 4:1-3

Evangelical Heritage Version

Opposition and Threats to the Building^[a]

4 When Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, it infuriated him, and he became very angry. He ridiculed the Jews ² and said in front of his allies^[b] and the army of Samaria, “What are those pathetic Jews doing? Will they restore^[c] it by themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in one day? Will they refurbish the stones that came from the piles of rubble that have been burned?”

³ Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him. He said, “Whatever they are building, if even a fox climbed on it, it would break apart the wall made from their stones.”