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?”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Nehemiah 4:2 in context
Nehemiah 4:1–5
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But when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and was very indignant, and mocked the Jews.
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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?”
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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.”
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“Hear, our God, for we are despised. Turn back their reproach on their own head. Give them up for a plunder in a land of captivity.
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Don’t cover their iniquity. Don’t let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders.”
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