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Nehemiah 4:1
“But it happened that when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.”
Verse in context — Nehemiah 4
1
But it happened that when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.
2
He spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, "What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, since they are burned?
3
Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, "What they are building, if a fox climbed up it, he would break down their stone wall.
About Nehemiah
Rebuilding Jerusalem’s walls and restoring the community’s faith.
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