⁶ But we built the wall, and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof, for the people were motivated to work.

⁷ ¶ And it came to pass when Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabians and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites heard that the walls of Jerusalem were sound and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth

⁸ and conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem and to hinder it.