Nehemiah 4:1-7

1But it came to pass that, when SanballatH5571 heardH8085 that we were building the wallH2346, he wasH1961 wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews. 2And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What are these feeble Jews doing? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they makeH6213 an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, seeing they are burned? 3Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they are building, if a fox go up, he shall break down their stone wall. 4Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn back their reproach upon their own head, and give them up for a spoil in a land of captivity; 5and cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee; for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders. 6So we built the wall; and all the wall wasH1961 joined together unto half the height thereof: for the people had a mind to work.

7But it came to pass that, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the repairing of the wallsH2346 of Jerusalem went forward, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth;