Nehemiah 4:1-3

Lexham English Bible

Opposition Begins

4 ^[a] Now it happened when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he became angry and greatly provoked, and he mocked the Jews. ² Then he said before his brothers and the army of Samaria, “What are the feeble Jews doing? Will they restore these things for themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish it in a day? Will they revive the stones from the piles of rubble—even those burned up?”

³ Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him and said, “Their wall of stone that they are building would break down if a fox went on it!”