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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 make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, seeing they are burned?
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Now 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.
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Hear, our God; for we are despised: and turn back their reproach on their own head, and give them up for a spoil in a land of captivity;
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and don`t cover their iniquity, and don`t let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have provoked [you] to anger before the builders.
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So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half [the height] of it: for the people had a mind to work.