Nehemiah 4:1-8

11Now it came about that when 2Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he became furious and very angry, and he mocked the Jews. 2And he spoke in the presence of his brothers and 3the 4wealthy people of Samaria and said, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Are they going to restore the temple for themselves? Can they offer sacrifices? Can they finish it in a day? Can they revive the stones from the 5heaps of rubble, even the burned ones?” 3Now Tobiah the Ammonite was near him, and he said, “Even what they are building--6if a fox were to 7jump on it, it would break their stone wall down!”

48Hear, O our God, how we are an object of contempt! 9Return their taunting on their own heads, and turn them into plunder in a land of captivity. 5Do not 1011forgive their guilt and do not let their sin be wiped out before You, for they have 12demoralized the builders.

6So we built the wall, and the entire wall was joined together to half its height, for the people had a 13mind to work.

714Now when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the 15repair of the walls of Jerusalem went 16on, and that the breaches began to be closed, they were very angry. 8So all of them 17conspired together to come to fight against Jerusalem and to cause confusion in it.